[ale] Need Tractor Feed Dot Matrix printer

[Scott Castaline]

Ben Coleman wrote:

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> Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> | My first home computer (1975) ran a Teletype ASR33...
> | Now that was a kick. Stood on an attached stand and was shipped to
> | me bolted to a wooden palette. Sounded just like a newsroom at 110
> baud :-)
> | Is anyone else ancient on this list or are the other geezers still
> | running DOS or Windows?
>
> I'm ancient enough to remember the IBM 1403 line printers from the same
> era.  Talk about loud!  I remember one where if you had several lines of
> asterisks (typical for the header and trailer pages), it sounded as
> though someone was hitting it with a hammer.  Fast, though!
>
> Ben
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How about the Centronics 501? It could only print from left to right and 
the return was spring loaded controlled by a clutch. A few FEs lost 
fingers on head returns!!! >:o