At 04:57 PM 5/28/99 -0700, don wrote:
>On Fri, 28 May 1999, Arlen Michaels wrote:
>
>> Imagine if you had to drive a dot-matrix print head with raw pin-driver
>> signals instead of the printer hardware figuring it out for you : same
kind
>> of problem.
>
>Seems to me that I recall just that approach in some of the early attempts
>at printer graphics with CP/M.
Or in the case of some software I wrote WBW...
When some of the first letter-quality (daisy wheel and thimble) printers
came out, we quickly found that you could micro-step the print carriage and
platen.
Now, how many '.' fingers on the print wheels do you think we wore out once
we started teaching these printers to be plotters?!
-jim
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