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On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 08:48:34 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

[snip]

> The first printer I owned was a 24-pin printer I got with my IBM PS/1.
> It was probably a lot quieter than what you used but still too
> annoyingly loud for my taste. I quite enjoyed how quiet inkjet was (even
> though I hated how frequently you had to get more ink) and then the
> laser printer.

My first printer was an Epsom MX-80 (8-pin). At the time, I was in college 
and had an assignment to print a graph. The prior assignment was on A/D 
converters and led to a collection of 256 8-bit numbers. This assignment 
was to generate a graph from them. The school printer had only 7 pins, and 
was much harder to use than mine. Although I was allowed to do the 
assignment at home, I ended up learning both systems because I was helping 
a bunch of other students.

-- 
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal