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Re: how dot matrix printers placed text

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Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> writes:

> From the "miss that awesome sound" department:
> Title: How dot matrix printers created text
> Author: Thom Holwerda
> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 22:15:43 +0000
> Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/140137/how-dot-matrix-printers-created-text/

Jeez, you kids.  Never even heard the "awesome sound" of a skilled
typist using a typewriter.....clatter clatter stottle-spop....dit.

> The impact printer was a mainstay of the early desktop computing era. Also
> called "dot matrix printers,"...

The DecWriter hard-copy terminal was also "dot matrix", albeit
lacking the ability of much later desktop printers to nudge dots closer
together horizontally, improving readability.

> The heart of the impact printer is the print head.

Amazingly massive device on the DecWriter.

> Links:
> [1]: https://technicallywewrite.com/2024/07/01/dotmatrix (link)

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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