29 May
2009
29 May
'09
12:55 a.m.
At 04:26 PM 5/28/2009, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 28 May 2009 at 13:30, John Foust wrote:
OK, I'll bite. What would be set wrongly to make it do this?
I'm not talking about a printer that can print on the return to
to the left... The Wikipedia article makes it sound like the
text prints "backwards" on every other line.
- John
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.