Those kinds of printers were delightfully mechanical. Writing a little loop in GW-BASIC to grab key-at-a-time input (INKEY$) and writing it out to the parallel

Those kinds of printers were delightfully mechanical. Writing a little loop in GW-BASIC to grab key-at-a-time input (INKEY$) and writing it out to the parallel port was a ton of fun. You could create overstrike-type output like that easily. It also almost felt like controlling a robot. (I mean, you really were...)