MarkusWET Dec 8
As some may know, I'm a semi-avid typewriter collector. Now, due to somewhat related circumstances beyond anyone's control, @ckvi basically forced my hand and convinced me to get an old dot matrix printer - Epson LX-800, late-1980s - and a corresponding early-2000s HP laptop with a parallel printer port.

So here's a time-lapse of printing the GameFAQs guideline for Breath of Fire III. I love the sound of a soprano office buzzsaw! #epsonLX800 #dotMatrixPrinter #vintageComputing #undiagnosedButEveryoneIsQuiteSure
David JONESMay 17, 2025
You collect complaints about your poor copper shipments on clay tablets, I collect vintage Amstrad CPC software price-lists on dot-matrix printouts. We are not the same.
#DotMatrixPrinter #amstrad_cpc
David JONESJul 16, 2024

Two dot matrix printers recreated in font form by me. On the left the Epson FX-80 reconstructed from dot map grids in its manual; On the right a reconstruction from found continuous stationery printouts of a different unknown printer.

On the whole i find the Epson design more pleasant and a little more consistent, but occasionally the other design wins. For example, the /asterisk and the /K.

#DotMatrixPrinter

David JONESJul 7, 2024

Look what I found stuffed in the back of a cupboard at the in-laws. Wide carriage continuous fanfold computer paper. And it has code on. Is it COBOL?

#DotMatrixPrinter #Fanfold #COBOL #Retrocomputing

GeekProjects NewsJun 22, 2024
Vintage Hacks for Dot Matrix Printers in China https://hackaday.com/2024/06/21/vintage-hacks-for-dot-matrix-printers-in-china/ #dotmatrixprinter #Retrocomputing #chinese
Vintage Hacks For Dot Matrix Printers In China

In an excerpt from his book The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, [Thomas Mullaney] explains how 1980s computer tech — at least the stuff that was developed in the We…

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C:\KKJ\>Feb 29, 2024

Testing best setting to print from LibreOffice to the dot-matrix printer.

Liberation Mono 7pt looks nice.

#retrocomputing #ascii #dotmatrixprinter

Computer History Museum 🇸🇮Oct 16, 2023

💡🖨️ For terminal access, you don't even need a monitor. Ancestor of this dot matrix printer with a keyboard, the DECwriter III, had its roots in teleprinters, which evolved from telegraphy. This model dates back to 1977 and supports only the more modern RS-232 standard with a maximum speed of 9600 bit/s.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #dotmatrixprinter #retrotech #nostalgia #nostalgie #70er #retrocomputing #decwriter #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #terminal

Eric VitielloOct 11, 2023

Integrating a Macintosh SE, and an ImageWriter II dot matrix printer into a modern network: browsing the web, printing with AirPrint, and sharing files

#Macintosh #MacintoshSE #RetroComputing #ImageWriter #DotMatrixPrinter
https://connor.zip/posts/2023-08-04-localtalk-ethernet

Browsing like it's 1994

Integrating a Macintosh SE, and an ImageWriter II dot matrix printer into a modern network: browsing the web, printing with AirPrint, and sharing files

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peronMar 2, 2022

Printronix Dot Matrix Printer

https://toobnix.org/w/5Ax2CLvTDMHFN44TKecKmN

Printronix Dot Matrix Printer

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