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Show 036: The Dot Matrix Printer

Mar 20, 2006

 

I keep hitting the Control key, but I'm still not in control.

Welcome to Show 036!  This week's Topic: The Dot Matrix Printer!

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

Old Skool Arcade, Modern Day Fun - In Portland, my home town!  Check out the Ground Kontrol site...
Need to fix up your Commodore computer?  Have a look at Ray Carlsen's homepage!
More TI 99/4A links - a Yahoo! group, and the TI 99ers online User's Group!
A Wikipedia article on the Dot Matrix Printer...

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

Thanks for listening!

- Earl

 

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Hotel Budapest
thirteen and a half years ago

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Keith
almost fourteen years ago

Funny but true story. Back in the day when IBM just got VGA I still had my C64. One of my classmates he was so cool cause had an IBM with VGA. PC's were just getting interesting but there was no way I was going to give up on my C64 unless I was going to get an Amiga. So, I use to show cool things the C64 could still do that was useful in an era when you could obviously see that the PC was going to dominate. I couldnt see myself owning a 'Business computer'. I had a dot matrix. Now mind you this was high school days and my PC friend said something about porn on a VGA monitor and I went home and printed a (unexpectedly multi page) poster of Samantha Fox topless using my dot matrix printer. My friend was so surprised if I remember correctly he took my poster ;) There was other things I could with the C64 that surprised him like using an 80line terminal program to join BBS he went to. Download images and using a program it would convert the image into the commodore limited colour palette but when your young that was cool.

Fun days :)

Raymond Day
eighteen and a half years ago

I started with a TRS-80 and wanted a printer very bad. Back then they cost a lot. I got a Epson MX80 for like $700! In Z80 code I made a screen dump. My very 1st printer program. It worked real good. I even put it on a boot disk so you could press reset and print out the screen. On a TRS model 3 the ROM cleaded the screen on a reset :(

Useing Dot wighter on the TRS-80 I made a code that would print a lot better. Using the 1/2 space. So the line feed only went like 1/2 a dot. I got every other bit printer out 4 at a time then 1/2 line feed and print out the other 4. It made the print look a lot better. Later I did the same on a commodore 64 in GEOS. Could even make the page 2 times as long because the letters were 2 times short but made them look a lot better.

-Raymond Day

Emory Lehman
eighteen and a half years ago

Talking about dot matix printers at my place of employement we still use many dot matrix printers. Just last week they just got 2 brand new IBMs. I don\'t have the model number but are fast, and still do a great job with the multi-part paper we use.