[OT] Musical printers

[IVP]

A new one on me, musical dot matrix printers. I've not seen
that before.

I used to have a program for the Commodore 64 which played
tunes by vibrating the head of the 1541 floppy drive. Made a
mess of the alignment though if you used it too much

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=musicall+dot+matrix+printer&t=ffab&atb=v68-1&iax=1&ia=videos&iai=u8I6qt_Z0Cg


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[RussellMc]

Long ago when dot matrix printers were still "rather dear" Juki (AFAIR)
made a "single dot" printer which for each column in a character stepped
the head vertically across a character height and struck it with a 'hammer'
per dot. The head thus had to operate about 5 times as fast as the
individual needles in a 7 dot high character head.

The sound it made was akin to something continually tearing open the space
time continuum. Astounding.


Russell

[Clint Jay]

The floppotron on YouTube is worth a look, you can even send requests

Post by RussellMc
Long ago when dot matrix printers were still "rather dear" Juki (AFAIR)
made a "single dot" printer which for each column in a character stepped
the head vertically across a character height and struck it with a 'hammer'
per dot. The head thus had to operate about 5 times as fast as the
individual needles in a 7 dot high character head.
The sound it made was akin to something continually tearing open the space
time continuum. Astounding.
Russell
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