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On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:54:16 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach
<a...@spamfence.net> wrote:

>On 18 Mar 2018 01:02:49 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:56:34 +0000, danny burstein wrote:
>>
>>> In <87d1024...@usenet.ankman.de> Andreas Kohlbach
>>> <a...@spamfence.net> writes:
>>> 
>>>>I seem to recall some newer fully formed character printers could do
>>>>bold by movie the paper just a little but and print the same character
>>>>"almost" over itself again. Didn't some matrix printers employed this
>>>>method too to print bold if their character set wasn't made up for this?
>>> 
>>> Available in the Decwriter II.
>>> 
>>> We used one with a TRS-80, and I still remember some of the codes:
>>> 
>>> "Escape", aka chr$(27), then "B" chr$(66) for Bold...
>>> 
>>> other options included underscore, shrunken text,
>>> and I think italics, too.
>
>But that is system depended. Early word processors like Wordstar had
>shortcuts. For example Ctrl-B to get the next characters in bold. And a
>library for common printers of the day that for example Ctrl-B would we
>translated with chr$(27) for your TRS-80 printer. If your printer was not
>in the library would could "write" one yourself if you were skilled and
>know the codes of your printer.
>
>> Not to mention the 'Near Letter Quality' dot matrix printers. I bought a 
>> Canon PW1080A printer in 1984 that had that. 9 pins (I think). The 
>> printer did a line using the 9 pins, then reversed the carriage and moved 
>> the paper up by a fractional amount. It then printed back the other way, 
>> filling in the gaps between the dots. There was a separate bold function.
>
>At school around 1982 we got these strange smelling (almost like alcohol)
>copies handed out by the teacher. One day a rich kid asked to have his
>essay get copied. He printed the original on NLQ. While most students
>didn't care or noticed I was wowed. Am sure he did this by intention only to
>brag with it for the nerds in class noticing it. :-)

The earliest WP I used was on an Apple ][+ at junior college. I was
glad to find one, as before I had used a mechanical typewriter. I did
write out my essay, or homework, long hand before typing. But I
sometimes looked and then typed in the wrong paragraph.

Doing that on a computer, I could just move the paragraph to the
correct location on the page, instead of having to retype the entire
page.