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👽 rimu

Every once in a while I get a strong urge to own a dot matrix printer.

Then I can do this:

cat filename.txt > /dev/lp

... and listen to the beast roar into life.

It'd be glorious.

Imagine dumping 1000+ lines of source code to /dev/lp, going for a stroll and coming back to one long continious sheet of geekery.

Living the dream.

1 year ago · 👍 martin, mp0

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👽 digbat

my first printer was a tandy thermal dot matrix, i think the roll was a silver colour. later i can remember being very happy to upgrade my dot matrix to an inkjet - printer drivers were a pain then and still are! very happy to use a "laser" printer now. i can totally understand the pull of retro - i want my atari st back:-) · 1 year ago

👽 bencollversphone

It would be cool to make an emulator that also emulates the sound of a dot matrix printer. If they can be used to generate music then it must be deterministic. · 1 year ago