I had a dot matrix printer back in the days hooked to my Commodore Amiga. I don't know how but I remember that I was somehow managing to print graphs with XY axis and plots for my math lessons (teacher was very enthusiastic about it btw). IIRC I coded this myself back then: didn't use anyone else's software.
But mostly that dot-matrix printing was printing D&D characters templates: after one too many eraser/pencil these D&D cheats were all dirty, so we'd print new ones and re-copy our character's stats/inventory. I don't remember the name of the DTP program I was using but it was a blast discovering DTP as a teenager!
Now... I miss that noise and TFA certainly doesn't help.
I've got two itches I want to scratch with a dot-matrix printer (well, with two printers really, I wouldn't want to mix the two usecases), since a very long time:
- have it print one line everytime a user account logs in through SSH (yeah, a paper trail *and* a sound notification seen how noisy the thing is)
- have it print a summary each time an option expires:
SLV241004C0030000 expired OTM, premium collected: $x.xx
But mostly that dot-matrix printing was printing D&D characters templates: after one too many eraser/pencil these D&D cheats were all dirty, so we'd print new ones and re-copy our character's stats/inventory. I don't remember the name of the DTP program I was using but it was a blast discovering DTP as a teenager!
Now... I miss that noise and TFA certainly doesn't help.
I've got two itches I want to scratch with a dot-matrix printer (well, with two printers really, I wouldn't want to mix the two usecases), since a very long time:
A dot-matrix printer is so oldschool it's cool.