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

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, May 13, 2011 02:54 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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
>

Or Hayes and every other modem manufacturer that could not branch into 
another market or cut costs big time...