10 Dec
1998
10 Dec
'98
6:36 p.m.
At 08:36 PM 12/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
Compare:
o o o o o
to
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
Any difference jump out at you? Yep, the latter uses a lot more vertical
space. In a laptop, that translates into thickness. If you want a skinny
laptop, all your parts have to be thin.
As to five heads versus one, you can print five characters at once. Faster
printing.
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a little
'shuttle', spaced 5 characters apart in the same horizontal
line. A motor/scroll cam assembly wobbles this backwards and forwards
across the paper and moves the paper up one dot line for ever complete
May I ask, why do this when it's probably easier to use 9 vertically
aligned pins like the rest of the civilized dot matrix world? (Except for