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Subject: Re: how dot matrix printers placed text
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 00:36:19 -0000 (UTC)
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Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> wrote at 21:49 this Monday (GMT):
> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> I once had an office mate that would make an awesome buzzing sound as he
> typed.  One day I noticed the sound and turned around to see what he was
> doing.  Much to my surprise he was doing it typing with 2 fingers.

I don't get people who only use 2 fingers..

> Years before the place I was consulting at asked me to help out
> with a program to clean the print train on an IBM 1403 N1.
> This printer would do 1100 lines per minute.
> You cleaned it by removing the ribbon and putting a Velcro like paper in
> the printer.
>
> So I looked at the print train and found the order characters appeared
> on the train.  Then I wrote an assembler program using data chaining to
> print 100 lines with one I/O command and loop.  The characters were in the same
> order as the print train so all the magnets could fire at once.
>
> When we ran it, the printer produced a loud screeching sound, unlike the
> sounds it made during regular printing.  The operators were pretty happy
> with their new toy.  The only problem is it cleaned the printer too fast
> so the fun didn't last long enough.


Too effective :(
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