• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    My favorite dot matrix memory is printing a like 400 page Breath of Fire 3 strategy guide on a daisy wheel dot matrix, and it took over night to print and everyone in the house complained about the constant ditditditditditditditditdit

    edit: And the ribbon was so worn out that you needed forensic equipment to read it, but i persevered.

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      3 hours ago

      I remeber being 7 or 8 and rolling a ream of that paper down our hall and drawing dinosaurs from one end to the other

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      6 hours ago

      Bit late now, but a tiny squirt of WD-40 into the ribbon cartridge often got you another few hundred pages out of it.

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        5 hours ago

        about 30 years too late, lol

        But thats gonna be one of those things thats gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of my life.