Re: The problem with not owning the software

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 08:48:34 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

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The first printer I owned was a 24-pin printer I got with my IBM PS/1.
It was probably a lot quieter than what you used but still too
annoyingly loud for my taste. I quite enjoyed how quiet inkjet was (even
though I hated how frequently you had to get more ink) and then the
laser printer.

My first printer was an Epsom MX-80 (8-pin). At the time, I was in college
and had an assignment to print a graph. The prior assignment was on A/D
converters and led to a collection of 256 8-bit numbers. This assignment
was to generate a graph from them. The school printer had only 7 pins, and
was much harder to use than mine. Although I was allowed to do the
assignment at home, I ended up learning both systems because I was helping
a bunch of other students.

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