Music Performances from dot matrix printers! This group is l ooking for some old printers

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Aug 4 08:08:52 2000

> Check out this site which I found through slashdot.org. An
> interesting use of those old beasts as musical instruments.
>
> http://www.sat.qc.ca/the_user/dotmatrix/en/intro.html
>
> And I thought using printers for music went out with the old
> line printers of the (50's? and ) 60's! :-)

Surely you jest! We were playing "Row-Row-Row Your Boat" on our
Dataproducts LPM300 well into the 1980s...

In fact, I have the "music" on the [dead] Prime at home, just
no line printer to play it on!

-dq
Received on Fri Aug 04 2000 - 08:08:52 BST

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