Re: New York Times article on BBS's

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From: Tony Duell
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:45

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Well, the Texas Silent 700 thermal printer had a 35 element printhead
arranged on a 5*7 matrix. I've seen other thermal printers with a similar
layout. A friend of mine has a Honeywell printer with 14 pins, in 2 colums
of 7 exactly aligned - it only has 7 horizontal rows in the final output.
I think that's so that the solenoids can run at a lower duty cycle for the
same speed. Also, 24 pin printers often have the pins in 2 columns, offset
by 1/2 a pin width.

-tony 'PDP11 Hacker' Duell
ard@siva.bris.ac.uk

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