On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:59:28PM -0500, Matthew Rogers wrote:
>
>> What's a dot matrix printer? Isn't it an ancient way of carving paper
>> using impacts?
>
> No, no. You feed it clay tablets, and it stamps characters into them. The
> really high end ones had built-in kilns on the end. Very fancy.
Ah, auto-cuneiform. Never knew what I was getting into...
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