I found a nearly new daisy wheel printer in my storage. Something like this might be a good use of it.
Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024
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#12Nice work. (The author is right, that printing ASMR in the video is incredible.)
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#13Nice work. (The author is right, that printing ASMR in the video is incredible.)
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.
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#14Been 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?
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#15I find it funny that it only prints the headlines from reddit, true reddiots only read the headlines and the comments.
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#16Nice work. (The author is right, that printing ASMR in the video is incredible.)
If you like that printer sound, you’ll love the FLOPPOTRON 3.0
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#17This 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.
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#19I remember that NLQ font, I had Star's SG-10C with Commodore IEC interface as a kid
I miss bitmap fonts
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#20I 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)