[ale] Need Tractor Feed Dot Matrix printer

[Geoffrey]

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?
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> 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!

Speaking of ancient.  I started programming on punch cards.  Required 
school supplies included a slide rule.

I've seen my share of IBM hardware as well...

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Until later, Geoffrey