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Article #621407Re: Old word processors
From: hanc...
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:18
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:18
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On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 4:52:31 PM UTC-4, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > > Dot matrix printers came with built-in RAM buffers... which often > > could be expanded with additional RAM. If you only print a few pages, > > it might all fit in the RAM buffer... and your computer would consider > > the print job finished. Thus you only needed an additional print > > spooler if you often printed large print jobs. > Would they take several pages (one page text might be around 1KB)? What > about daisywheel printers and RAM? > Why would they advertise RAM spoolers if there was no need for? Printer buffers expanded over time. Our early Okidata printers had very little buffering, maybe one or two lines at best. Later Okidata units had a full page. My Panasonic printer could keep about 3/4 of a page. As an aside, the Panasonic printer had a control panel where one could select the typeface and size. It was kind of tricky to use and I never bothered with it. It was far easier to run a one line BASIC program with PRINT CHR$(n) with the appropriate printer codes to set it up. The Panasonic supported... 10, 12, and 15 chars/inch. The 15 cpi was very useful at times. typefaces included Prestige Elite, Courier, Sans Serif, Script, and a proportional. For correspondence, I preferred Prestige Elite (elite pitch 12 cpi) or Courier (pica pitch 10 cpi). The printer handled card stock easily. I often sent out postcards. I had a box of sprocket fed 4x6" card stock which was very useful as postcards. There were times I wanted to pack a lot of information on the card, and used 15 cpi. Certainly adequate. (Most of the things I did with postcards are now obsolete; can be done with email.) There was also a double width/double height which was could for labels and headings, though that printed very slowly. While it could print graphics, they were very coarse and printed very slowly. Not really worth it.
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