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On 29 Dec 2024 19:32:59 GMT, Mark Lloyd wrote:


[snip]

> My first printer was an Epsom MX-80 (8-pin).

Correction: it was a 9-pin printer, but only 8 were used for bitmap 
graphics. I don't remember how line feed worked.

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