16 Jun
2011
16 Jun
'11
12:51 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 08:56:43AM -0400, Mike Loewen wrote:
Yes, it did. Next time, please use different characters, not all 'X's to
equalise the wear on my type cylinder.
Getting moderatly on-topic, does anyone remember doing graphgics with a
daisywheel printer? Most such printers allowed you to position the
carriage and feed the paper accurately, and you printed '.' charactes in
the appropraite places. IIRC, the ApplePlot progam for the Apple ][
included a high-res screen dump routing to a Qume Sprint 5 printer which
did this. Made a helluva racket.
I also remember (and may still have somewhere), plastic daisywheels with
a metal insert on the '.' character to extend the life of the wheel when
used like this.
I was amazed when reading the dcoumetaiton for the HP9871 daisywheel printer
(no, I don;t have one, which I did). that it had set of plotting
commands. Typical HP...
-tony
XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX X
X X X X X X X X X
XXXXX X X X XXXXX X X X
X X X X X X X
XXXXX X XXXXX X XXXXX X X
That would make a lot of noise on a asr-33. ;-)