Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:00:05 -0500 From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:34:00 -0500 (EST), D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote:
> The print head did not move -- it was a single row of pins that > extended all the way across the page. Something like 600 lines > per minute, I think, but I may have misremembered.
Nope, there definitely were some of them that ran that fast. Those machines were _awesome_ (me being a geek and all). Plus, they made this really cool, high pitched *rrrrriiiiiiippppppp* sound as they printed. You expected the paper to turn to dust. :-)
TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
And many of the Panasonic & Okidata printers are still running.
They were built to last longer than their market niche.
(Could that have been the philosophy underlying the design of the MZ/ZX series?)
Collin
"You impress at a distance, but you impact a life up close. The closer the relationship the greater the impact."
Howard Hendricks
