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My dad built a heathkit dot matrix printer for his TRS-80. I fondly remember waking up at 2am numerous times to that loud thing. It was the loudest printer I t
by cronix 5y ago
My dad built a heathkit dot matrix printer for his TRS-80. I fondly remember waking up at 2am numerous times to that loud thing. It was the loudest printer I think I'd ever heard.
- ck2 5y agoHa dot matrix was fun. Then the evolution of multi-pass and very dense pinheads. Then color before we moved on to other tech. Remember how big the parallel port and how thick the cable? All those pins. And they eventually found a way to transfer data at a whopping 500kbps over parallel vs 128kbps for rs-232. How far we've come. Seriously!