* <<F6N.1381>> Dot Matrix comic script scribbles

This is an Okidata Microline 92, a dot-matrix printer.  There are
more notable specimens of the breed, but this one is personally
significant as it was my first printer.

It belongs to a family of machines called IMPACT PRINTERS, along with
teletypewriters, drum printers, daisy-wheel printers, and the like.
They all operate by the same underlying principle: strike an inked
ribbon against a piece of paper, and you will make a mark.

I've long had a fascination with dot-matrix printers.

Part of it is nostalgia.  I remember their SOUND – the earlier ones
were especially loud – from the very earliest days of my life, and,
as I mentioned, my own first printer was a dot-matrix. But they are
also interesting to me because the dot-matrix printer is a TERMINAL
TECHNOLOGY.  They are the final stage of impact printer evolution, a
genealogy of machines that traces back through the mechanical
typewriter, to cast type and the Gutenberg press.

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