<OT> Re: 1/2 dozenth request over 3-years

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 17:07 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: 
> On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 07:10 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
> 
> >>> Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have bought an "entry level" printer, you
> >>> suppose? It's a PSC 1500. I paid $150 for it, which is a LOT cheaper
> >>> than that Teletype 43 that I paid about $800 for, new. I guess I should
> >>> have stayed with that old piece of iron, or the NEC Spinwriter. I FEEL
> >>> your pain.<sighs>   Ric
> >>>
> >>
> >> NNNNNNNNNNNNNeeeeeaaaaaaaggggg
> >> NNNNNNNNNeeeeeeaaaaagggggg
> >> NNNeeeaaggg
> >> NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGG
> >>
> >> To understand 24pin printer speak, just pipe their sound output through
> >> sed 's/[eE]//g' and tr -s '[Nag]'
> >
> > Could you do that for the Spinwriter?? It was more like:
> > AWWWR AWWWWRR AWWWWWR AWWWWWWWRRRR
> >
> 
> thanks, I don't remember what 9 pin'ers say anymore.

The NEC Spinwriter was almost a daisy-wheel, except it had a "thimble".
But, it had the letters raised on steel fingers that spun to print
position and a hammer to beat them with. I haven't seen a printer yet
that could beat the quality of one. Especially if you used the carbon
non-fabric ribbon that gave the print a raised letters effect.
Absolutely lovely. Noisy as heck, too. 

Just think of all the people put out of work, who used to make the noise
dampening hoods for the old impact printers. Gone with the advent of
laser and jet printers. Just like the buggy whip. :) Ric 

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