Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us3.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=CTHElg_Mn=jO7B^IE@GQfnHWonT5<]0TmQ;nb^V>PUff5[gZBW6J?LlRQ?47NQ;EPka^FCK^OJK8iX8BPBTDGKek`XHS]@JB=ag`HlOj^:MhM`;E40TK^[G`n X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net From: Mark Lloyd Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <9OCcnRW7grqkbPT6nZ2dnZfqnPUAAAAA@earthlink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 29 Dec 2024 19:32:59 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: <6771a3eb$10$3620715$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1735500779 reader.netnews.com 3620715 127.0.0.1:43379 Bytes: 2470 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