🚀 go-pugleaf

I wrote a screen-dump program that did this for a Swintec 8012 daisywheel
attached to my family's Color Computer.  (This was a while back...)

It worked well, and generated better-looking output than many cheap dot-
matrix printers.  There were several caveats.

  1. It utterly *killed* the period leaf on the print wheel after a
     couple of screen dumps.  This was no problem, since at the time
     the printer was breaking the 'g' leaf off of print wheels faster
     than I could ruin '.' leaves.

  2. It ate up ribbon like mad.

  3. The screen dumps were INCREDIBLY slow.  (Example: A dump of a
     star on-screen made of exactly five line segments, only black
     areas being the line segments: 20 minutes print time!)

The program itself was trivial.

I've never seen any commercial programs that could do this, and I
wouldn't recommend it.  I've always wondered, though, why someone
couldn't build a 64-character vertical bit map wheel to allow dot
matrix printing, 6 bits at a time.

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Stephen Trier                              Case Western Reserve University
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