CoreyNever roll your own date time library kids
Tim@LifesAHaskell @tastytronic That date is so clear and readable — on such an uneven surface — I could almost forgive the date being entirely fictional.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@penryu @LifesAHaskell @tastytronic The hardware is, indeed, quite impressive.
Remember the first inkjet printers you could buy? How they waited two or three minutes between pages for the ink to dry - and still smudged? We decided there was no future in inkjet printers and bought daisywheels and lasers instead.
RealGene ☣️@TimWardCam @penryu @LifesAHaskell @tastytronic
Back in the day, I went to a surplus equipment sale from Price Waterhouse.
I bought an early Xerox laser printer, which weighed about 80 lbs and used toner that came in bottles.
It emulated a Diablo 630 daisy wheel printer.
So, yes.
@RealGene @penryu @LifesAHaskell @tastytronic Daisy wheels ... ah yes ...
Italics were a pain, as you had to change the daisy wheel. If you wrote really clever software your punters would only have to change the wheel once per line of type, not once each time there was a switch between roman and italics.
Bold was OK if the punter was using a cloth ribbon, but not of they were using a carbon ribbon. You did bold by striking twice, one stepper motor step apart. With a cloth ribbon the two strikes blended into each other, with a carbon ribbon you got two clearly separate overlapping impressions.
Petey P. Twelve@TimWardCam @RealGene @penryu @LifesAHaskell I used a radio shack daisy wheel with a trs-80 back in the day, it sounded like a machine gun
Chloé Raccoon@tastytronic @TimWardCam @RealGene @penryu @LifesAHaskell @TundraWolf The PCW 9512 in the UK had a daisywheel for better print than it's siblings 9 pin dot matrix. It was still a machine built down to a price.. including sound deadening. There wasn't any. It quickly became nicknamed the gatling gun printer among users.
@chloeraccoon @tastytronic @RealGene @penryu @LifesAHaskell @TundraWolf Ah, yes. I know/knew the people who built the PCW.
@chloeraccoon @tastytronic @RealGene @penryu @LifesAHaskell @TundraWolf The only word processor available at the time that had the full character set needed for Welsh.