On Thursday 31 January 2008, Eben King wrote:
> 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...
Wow, kilns! My daughter and I would love to have one of those... Do you have
to get a printer to get one?
--Steve Szmidt
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