[ale] Need Tractor Feed Dot Matrix printer

[Scott Castaline]

Try sitting right next to a 600lpm band printer. And my wife wonders why 
I don't hear her anymore.

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:

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>On Thursday 09 December 2004 09:30 am, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
>|  Sounded just like a newsroom at 110 baud :-)
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>As one who lived and worked in newsrooms with those
>wire service terminals clanging and clacking continuously,
>I can tell you that the single, most important accessory
>was the sound-abating box. Small newsrooms with only
>two or three of the damn things could get by with the
>padded boxes. Larger newsrooms always put those terminals
>off in a room by themselves. And kept the door closed!
>
>Sean
>
>Who remembers a printer in Newport News who could read the
>perforated tape produced by the wire machines as easily as
>I could read hot lead type.
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