Re: Pin Printers

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From: peter da silva
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:23

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In article <1993Jan11.053558.22707@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ktatenen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Krishna Tateneni) writes:
> I'm at a loss here. I think the 9 pins were probably the minimum
> needed to produce decent quality text. But why 24 rather than 18 or 20
> or even 22?

I always assumed it's because 24 bits is 3 bytes.
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Subject: Re: Pin Printers
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