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  • Re: how dot matrix printers placed text

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Mon Jul 8 06:43:30 2024
    XPost: comp.misc

    On 08 Jul 2024 00:55:25 GMT, Retrograde wrote:

    The mechanical punching, at such a fast rate it sounded like a tiny
    Gatling gun ...

    You want Gatling gun? Pukka rat-a-tat-a-tat? Try a daisy-wheel printer.

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Jul 9 00:29:49 2024
    XPost: comp.misc

    Retrograde <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Our first printer was a dot matrix model, from I think a brand called Star or >something similar. Back then, in 1991 or so, a lot of employers in The >Netherlands offered programs wherein employees could buy computers through >their work, offered at a certain discount. My parents jumped on the opportunity
    when my mom’s employer offered such a program, and through it, we bought a >brand new 286 machine running MS-DOS and Windows 3.0, and it included said dot >matrix printer.

    That would be Star Micronics. A step below Epson, a step above Panasonic. --scott

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    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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