On 03/20/2013 11:23 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:
I remember dot matrix printers, too.
(I'll bet half the folks alive now don't.)

I still have a couple of them; first one was a Toshiba. I remember the
manual (which I still have around here somewhere) went into great detail
referring to the various escape codes that could be used to manually
operate the printer over a serial/parallel interface, from printing
actual letters to just pushing one pin out.

They don't do stuff like that anymore.

Jon