On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 06:43:30 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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.
I remember a Youtuber showing off the Coleco Adam computer of the 1980s a
few year ago, which included a daisy-wheel printer. He put ear protection
on and fired it up.
Then you could hear his wife/girl friend from the kitchen "WTF?!"
While in around 2000, when Ink- and Laser Jets were common, I found a
Star LC 10 or something on the flea market. My Linux box back then still
had a parallel port, so I bought it (nostalgia already kicked in for
me). Worked on Linux out of the box.
Next morning a neighbor asked what that "noise" was, so I explained. And promised to not do it again at night.
Funny, just 5 to 10 years earlier no one would had complained, as dot
matrix were common in the 80s and early 90s.
F'up2 comp.periphs.printer
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