"I recently purchased a dot matrix printer from eBay, and thought it would be a great excuse to have a custom "front page" printed out and ready for me each day. So, that's what I built!" #Media https://werd.io/2024/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-mat...
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"I recently purchased a dot matrix printer from eBay, and thought it would be a great excuse to have a custom "front page" printed out and ready for me each day. So, that's what I built!" #Media https://werd.io/2024/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer
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Matthew Millerreplied to Ben Werdmuller last edited by
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Ben Werdmullerreplied to Matthew Miller last edited by
@mattdm Wow. I think the output of that is the most depressing thing I've seen in a very long time. Just a superb illustration of what Trump is so good at.
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Matthew Millerreplied to Ben Werdmuller last edited by [email protected]
"...either because of the age or just the manufacturing decision, this printer has a very specific character set"
Sure makes me feel old. Yeah, there was no unicode, or anything like it. 7-bit ASCII was the only thing you could generally expect. Every system or device then used to the upper part of 8 bit characters to _do whatever they thought was a good idea_.
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