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.
7 months ago · 👍 martin, mp0
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:-) · 7 months ago
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. · 7 months ago