Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children Date: 30 May 2025 17:58:23 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <6831b9a7$0$8595$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <6832fab9$0$11442$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10102st$1j2ov$1@dont-email.me> <10131ao$28rgm$1@dont-email.me> <1015efc$2rf1i$5@dont-email.me> <1017d5j$3aupc$1@dont-email.me> <101ac66$1msej$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net rMsSuy62csAFcmQJOV3UkAZ3jUCBmEDKsE6usFpYD15vDm/zf2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0Ko0GfWM1nmwnG0GVxkkvezW6AM= sha256:RQmwUCaQobBhmRa83UMVzXnp6s3hsCmnolXgoNuHEqM= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:68008 On Fri, 30 May 2025 03:43:31 -0400, c186282 wrote: > Until the 90s, you were probably better off with a SERIAL printer. > The old, rugged, LOUD, OkiData pin printers come to mind. Only a FEW > special codes to shift between limited print modes - the drivers were > kinda easy to tweak. When QA needed to test with a dot matrix printer I dug my old Oki out of the shed. I'd forgotten how noisy it was. We had several sites that used a Digi with 4 serial ports for the stuff that still was RS-232. https://www.digi.com/products/networking/infrastructure-management/serial- connectivity/device-servers/portserverts The public safety industry isn't exactly cutting edge in general. Some of them do their shopping on ebay to keep the old equipment going. It got the job done 30 years ago and still does if you can find spare parts.