[geeks] YOWZA! I forgot how loud dot matrix printers were! (nostalgia!)

[Lionel Peterson]

Hello all,

I just ressurected a nice, clean, panasonic KX-P1124 dot matrix
printer, and yowza, I forgot how loud these puppies were!

I found myself oddly misty when I heard that mini-chainsaw sound, as I
ran the printer through it's self-test (based on hints found at
http://www.nefec.org/UPM/printers/mpa14.htm - a great find!

Now that I know it works OK, I may go out and secure some ribbons,
paper for it - that chainsaw sound makes me want to fire up BASIC and
do some coding! ;^)

(oh, and in the same corner of the basement I found a 386DX-40 w/128K
cache and 16 Meg of RAM with NetBSD installed from Dec. 1997 - at
least, that is when the mail messages in the root account end... Seems
a shame to pitch it, but I can't imagine a practical use for it -
thoughts?)


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Lionel

"I am not into examining other peoples' dumps..." - Sheldon T. Hall

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