12 Aug
1999
12 Aug
'99
6:48 a.m.
but, via escape sequences, the head can be
moved horizontally or vertically at 1/200 inch increments, allowing for
proportional spacing and graphics.
Flash back to 1980 at USC. Wanted to write up a paper for publication and
thought I would "leverage" the PLOT10 library by hacking a back end that
generated Diablo escape sequences to use the dot character as the pixel. It
worked great (albiet very slow) and I printed out my final copy using
"film" ribbon. BIG MISTAKE. I used up an entire ribbon (like $40 back then)
where 90% of the ribbon was essentially unused and 10% had little "dots"
used up on it.
--Chuck