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erelong 3 hours ago [-]
I feel like this could be expanded into a printable daily newspaper project with all the sections newspapers have, customize-able; and also just a digital version for people who don't wanna print. (I've been circling around creating a project like that for myself)
aschmelyun 2 hours ago [-]
I've had this in my backlog for a while now. If you ever move forward with yours, let me know!
I was not as surprised as the author that a 1980s printer doesn't support Unicode. Possibly because I owned a Star SG-10 around 1985 or 86.
aschmelyun 7 hours ago [-]
I wasn't born just yet, haha!
LocalH 4 hours ago [-]
_18fc9_18">I remember that NLQ font, I had Star's SG-10C with Commodore IEC interface as a kid
I miss bitmap fonts
avgDev 5 hours ago [-]
I find it funny that it only prints the headlines from reddit, true reddiots only read the headlines and the comments.
olivierestsage 6 hours ago [-]
Nice work. (The author is right, that printing ASMR in the video is incredible.)
finaard 5 hours ago [-]
Back in the early 90s I've discovered that there's not really any backchannel happening when printing to a dot matrix printer over the parallel port. And adding multiple ISA parallel port cards set to same IO address wouldn't cause any hardware issues, but just spit out the same data on all cards.
Which meant, as long as no paper was jamming, I could send data all three printers I had access to at the time could understand, and would save 1/3rd of printing time by having everything spit out in parallel.
My mother (parents bedroom adjacent to mine) did not think that'd qualify as ASMR at 2 in the morning.
ButlerianJihad 5 hours ago [-]
If you like that printer sound, you’ll love the FLOPPOTRON 3.0
I found a nearly new daisy wheel printer in my storage. Something like this might be a good use of it.
crims0n 10 hours ago [-]
Been thinking of doing something similar, I have an Apple ImageWriter and Atari 1025 sitting in my basement. Does anyone know how long dot matrix ink ribbons last new?
brudgers 2 hours ago [-]
When you think “this is terrible, maybe I need a new printer” it is time to change the ribbon…ink ribbons don’t die all at once, their print just keeps getting lighter.
And yes, people bought new printers instead of replacing the ribbon because the print from the latest model in the store looked so much better than what they had at home.
devilbunny 9 hours ago [-]
If they're anything like typewriter ribbons of the era (and why wouldn't they be?), a really long time if you re-ink them periodically. I don't think any of my dad's fabric ribbons ever actually broke, and he typed a lot.
EDIT: Not "professional secretary" levels, but a lot. Enough that he bought a Selectric II for use at home.
bombcar 10 hours ago [-]
Do you mean last as in how long until they dry out or last in how much you can print?
It's usually linear inches of text - which depends on how much you're printing.
crims0n 9 hours ago [-]
Yeah print… reading anything from a few months to a year. Not bad for how cheap the ribbons are.
finaard 5 hours ago [-]
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reaperducer 4 hours ago [-]
This is good because it's the daily news. Meaning, it ends. You get informed, not addicted.
That's one reason I use dead trees. The news ends. I get informed, and I'm the customer not the continuously-scrolling feed addict.
Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to be on top of every breaking news event. If there's something very important that you must know about, you will hear sirens or see an orange glow on the horizon.
LtWorf 10 hours ago [-]
I feel like the author cannot tell a serial and a parallel port apart?
aschmelyun 9 hours ago [-]
Author here, I didn't! I've updated the article to reflect the actual port (and have since learned the difference between the two).
I miss bitmap fonts
Which meant, as long as no paper was jamming, I could send data all three printers I had access to at the time could understand, and would save 1/3rd of printing time by having everything spit out in parallel.
My mother (parents bedroom adjacent to mine) did not think that'd qualify as ASMR at 2 in the morning.
https://youtu.be/3KS02q0BUnY?si=roYiok0-UxLVk-8t
And yes, people bought new printers instead of replacing the ribbon because the print from the latest model in the store looked so much better than what they had at home.
EDIT: Not "professional secretary" levels, but a lot. Enough that he bought a Selectric II for use at home.
It's usually linear inches of text - which depends on how much you're printing.
That's one reason I use dead trees. The news ends. I get informed, and I'm the customer not the continuously-scrolling feed addict.
Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to be on top of every breaking news event. If there's something very important that you must know about, you will hear sirens or see an orange glow on the horizon.