Throwing away the manual to my Epson printers was a difficult thing to do but marked a milestone in a nerds life in that era
Man, that'd be some real "Guy Hardening" you did there :-). Like, leaving your clothes at home and having a walk in the snow naked, sliding down the hill like a seal and rolling yourself back up.
http://www.thecomputerarchive.com/thearchive/Manuals/Epson%2...
I had an RX-80 that, that I loved, until it died in the same lightning storm that killed my Atari 800. I replaced it with a Panasonic, don't remember the model, but it was also a very good dot matrix printer.