Re: [SLUG] new (to me) printer

From: Steven Van Tilburg (vt@ariestechgroup.com)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 21:19:03 EST


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...
>
I don't suppose they supported auto-duplexing.

VT

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