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Subject: Re: how dot matrix printers placed text
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On 08 Jul 2024 16:42:06 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote:

> Never even heard the "awesome sound" of a skilled
> typist using a typewriter.....clatter clatter stottle-spop....dit.

Mechanical or electric?

Other pre-Ice-Age devices I have done a certain amount of text-entry on: 
Creed teleprinter, IBM 129 card punch. You want to talk about noises? We 
can talk about noises.