M0YNG , Englisch
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Mastodon/the Fediverse is inhabited by people who would appreciate that I just printed @moon artwork on my dot matrix printer, right?
:alex_thinking:

Seems right up the alley of people like @mattgrayyes :alex_crazy:

Action shot of the printer head blurring as it speeds across stamping Alex onto the page

mw1cgg ,
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@M0YNG @moon @mattgrayyes Great. Now I'm trawling Ebay for a dot matrix printer.

M0KHR ,
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@mw1cgg @M0YNG @moon @mattgrayyes 9 pin or 24 pin?

mw1cgg ,
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@M0KHR @M0YNG @moon @mattgrayyes Now you're showing your age.

36 pin.

M0KHR ,
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@mw1cgg @M0YNG @moon @mattgrayyes 36?!? That's luxury!

mw1cgg ,
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@M0KHR @M0YNG @moon @mattgrayyes Centronics baby. All the poshos had it.

M0KHR ,
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@mw1cgg @M0YNG @moon @mattgrayyes Hang on, that's the port, we're talking about the head pins. Even my Commodore had both serial and Centronix parallel.

M0KHR ,
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@mw1cgg @M0YNG @moon @mattgrayyes

All the printers I knew were 9 or 24 pin... Unless it's the big one in the Uni. I don't remember what it was, but it was IBM and 132 chars wide, and I had a quota of 30,000 chars (or was it lines) a month and I made sure I used it.

mw1cgg ,
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@M0KHR @M0YNG @moon @mattgrayyes In which case I have no idea. Can't remember which model we had, and unlike the amiga, my parents didn't leave it in the attic for me to find.

M0KHR ,
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@mw1cgg @M0YNG @moon @mattgrayyes

The serial interface for Commodore devices was a DIN socket - 6-pin, which the printer used. You would piggy back it through the disk drive, and the last thing connected would be the printer.

mw1cgg ,
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@M0KHR @M0YNG @moon @mattgrayyes It was RS-422 or something wasn't it?

M0KHR ,
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@mw1cgg @M0YNG @moon @mattgrayyes Wiki says some sort of IEEE 488. For me, it was the commodore serial cable, simple.

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@M0KHR @mw1cgg @M0YNG @moon unsubscribe

mw1cgg ,
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@mattgrayyes @M0KHR @M0YNG @moon Please create an account to unsubscribe from e-mails.

(sorry Matt, I'll untag you from any further replies)

M0YNG OP ,
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@mattgrayyes apologies. I did try and redirect the thread away from mentioning you and moon but it didn't seem to be noticed :alex_scream:

PS, if you didn't know, you can mute annoying threads.
https://fedi.tips/muting-conversation-threads-in-mastodon/

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