Citizen GSX-130 Dot Matrix Printer

[12/27/2017]
I purchased a Citizen GSX-130 24-pin Dot Matrix printer
from a thrift store a few months back, but haven't had 
the time to test it- well, I chose not to test it- until
now. I remember having a 9-pin back in the early 90's and
thinking that a 24-pin would be so awesome...

Today I connected this thing up to my 8088 (was already
on the 8088 for other things, so it was a perfect time.)
The printer is in great shape, and includes the single-
sheet feeder, for paper without the tractor feed holes.
I dropped in a piece of modern laser printer paper, and
the citizen pulled it in and aligned it. Much nicer than
what I remember. 

With the "online" light now on, I was able to type up a
quick document in Word 5.5 for DOS. It included variable
font sizes, bolds, italics, and underlines. I printed using
the "IBM Graphics Printer" driver, which I had previously
installed; Word might have a better driver, but that was
loaded already. Font sizes seemed to work, as did underlined
text; but bold came out as underlined, italic was simply
normal text. Still, the print speed and quality were both
great, especially for a printer that has been sitting
around for who knows how long.

Now I just need to get a bigger desk, so this printer can
sit next to the 8088...

One other thing that was cool... I found the manual for
this printer online, and noted that it has some dip-switch
settings under a panel, along with a method for adding
a serial port interface. This is exciting to me, since it
makes the possibility of using this thing with a homebrew
z80 more of a reality in the future. I found the interface
on ebay for $30, maybe a late Christmas present to myself.

Overall a good thrift store find.