1 May
2012
1 May
'12
3:51 p.m.
> paper. And, in the USA, I'm aware of a
documented homicide over the
> frustrations of interfacing serial printers to microcomputers.
On Tue, 1 May
2012, Doc Shipley wrote:
Oh, do tell! PLEASE do tell!
~35 years ago, a guy took a computer and a printer into a Computerland
store. After 6 weeks without results, the user shot and killed the
Computerland guy. Sorry, that's all that I remember.
I mentioned the incident to Joe Campbell while he was writing his "RS232
Solution" book. He tracked it down and mentioned it in the book - there
might be more detail there.