28 May
2009
28 May
'09
9:41 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 28 May 2009 at 13:30, John Foust wrote:
I've seen it happen on daisywheels, but I don't even understand how it
would be possible to happen on a dot-matrix printer. Can you describe
what the output looks like?
Peace... Sridhar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
I found "Sometimes computer printers with a typewriter-like
moving type head print boustrophedon if set up wrongly."
Which old printers might've done that?
Just about any of the old daisywheels or dot matrix printers. George
Comstock (of Diablo) first acquainted me with the word
"boustrophedonic"--"plowing like an ox" many years ago.