I still have my Atari 1027 daisy wheel printer. Sadly the wheel has crumbled
into nothing. Theres a guy who made a 3d printer file that can create a
replacement but apparently 3d silicone prints aren't there yet with the
required resolution. I'll give it a couple more years. I vividly remember the
sound of it printing...
-Curt
On Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 10:57:25 PM EDT, Dwight Giles via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I remember printing my dissertation chapters on a daisy wheel printer.
Dwight Giles Jr.
Wickford RI
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020, 4:48 PM Peter Frederick via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> I remember those days, had to decide if I wanted to buy a computer to do
> my thesis or buy a good typewriter to do it, about the same cost (or rough
> it and pay a typist).
>
> My first was an Apple II clone (Laser was the brand, I think) with two
> 5.25" floppy drives. Had that for a few years and swapped up to a 286 with
> an amber monochrome monitor and two floppy drives by the time I was working
> on my PhD. The Department had a HyType daisy wheel printer for final
> output, hand fed. Quite chore printing a 90 page document.
>
> Good old days, eh? Sometimes I think I prefer them, since I have to
> battle tomorrow to get the license fixed on some Agilent GC software,
> stupid hard drive crashed and I had to re-image the drive (Windows 10 is
> just as much a pain in the rear as Windows 286) wiping out my license
> file. Naturally, the guy that set it up two years ago got himself fired
> and the digital copy he had is nowhere to be found....
>
> Strangely it seems to be only honest people with these issues, the
> malevolent hacker types have all sorts of ways around such things....
>
> Peter
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