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WEB@30: The Register pokes around historical hardware of the WWW

Arthur the cat Silver badge

Re: Wot, no FX-80 ?

a lovely old daisywheel printer. great for doing text only system documents

In the days when I was an academic one of our brighter postgrads programmed up graphics for the daisy wheel printer, using full stops and the ability to fine position text. Worked wonderfully(*) until fatigue set in, at which point the petal with the full stop would snap off and fly across the room.

(*) But needed ear defenders.

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