Comments by "Mike Wood" (@MikeWood) on "Dot matrix printers aren't dead!!" video.

  1. When I was a kid in the early 70s, my dad would bring me and my brother into work at the university when he had to go in for a few hours on the weekend. Occasionally that meant a visit to the computer machine room. Once, to keep me entertained, he had an operator make for me a dot matrix print out of the profile of TOS USS Enterprise. It was printed out on probably a dozen or more fan folded large format light green/white striped paper for massive spreadsheets. Made a great banner. After watching your video, I found the university has some photos online of the old computer rooms of that era including one showing a large a dot matrix printer. :)
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  2. and I do some end user support for printers where I work. No Dot Matrix. More printer videos like this would be fun. :)
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