@possum104
Thank you for this. Just last week I scolded a channel host for saying impact printers were "almost non-existent". I've been working on them for 40 years and my company has hundreds of serial- matrix and high-speed shuttle matrix printers under contract around the country. Next they'll be saying flip-phones are outdated...... Geez.
@MithunKalan
in the early 90s, i printed the walkthrough for leisure suit larry on my brother's epson printer with continuous paper in dark mode. it had to take 3 passes for each dot. and it didn't print a whole line at a time. it was 2 or maybe 3 parts to a line of text. I think it was a 9-pin head. about 60 pages for the walkthrough. a few days later, i cleared the game and i told my friends in school. they wanted a printout too. mine was too special to me so i didn't give them my copy. i wanted the noise. i needed the noise. so i printed a new copy. i did make the mistake of starting the job at night. my family were soo pissed. i had to lock my room door to prevent them from coming in and turning the damn thing off. those were the days. being 12 and learning to code in turbo pascal. thanks for this video. really took my back there.
@mxm650
Love this! I kept my grandparents awake many nights in high school while I printed papers for English and chemistry class. True Decenders were key to getting the subscripts correct in chemical formulas.
@canuckchuck8836
Wow... I cannot believe that dot-matrix printers are a now a novelty. In the beginning of my career, I repaired probably thousands of impact printers. Man, I am old! Apart from multi-part forms and cheques, automotive manufactures still use impact printers (shuttle printers to be specific) for vehicle configuration on the assembly line and for shadow marking labels on body panels. I used to love working on those printers. Such a cool technology! Thank you for bringing impact printers back to life!
@MikeWood
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. :)
@daverussell6399
In 1999 i started in the IT world repairing PC's and Oki printers. I setup the 1st uk demo of wireless printing at a huge IT event. I used to repair Oki printers down to components, loved doing it
@collectorofancients5165
I love my dot matrix printer. I seriously use my Tandy DMP-206 weekly, sometimes daily, far more than I use the laser printer. A big part of what I use it for is an old comic collector software for DOS. It does everything I want it to, I can update the database as I wish pretty easily, and it doesn't constantly pester me to pay for some premium version or pay a monthly fee to use the software. The best thing though is that I can print lists of print-runs for whatever comic series I want, or what I usually use it for, printing off separate lists for what I own and what I am missing from a particular run. Because all the pages are connected, it makes a great continuous list that I can fold up and flip through as needed without having to staple pages together or punch them to fit in a binder. I also use my dot matrix printer to print record sheets for the Battletech board game, which I play usually once a week. I personally find the software for Windows 3.x to be much simpler and easier to use than newer versions and it gives me an excuse to use my DMP-206. In addition, I like to use my DOS computer for creative writing as it gives me a more isolated space without the distractions of having 20 different youtube tabs open, and I can easily print out my stories on my dot matrix printer, and again, don't need to fuss with annoying staples or hole punchers and binders. My friends think I'm pretty odd for having such enthusiasm for old technology, but I don't care. I love it!
@scottyanke655
As someone who receives shipments from logistics companies, I see dot matrix printed forms weekly. The bill of lading forms are just like the 1099's, and need to be signed. That's where the multiple copy at once feature of dot matrix comes in handy. Great explanation about how forgotten stuff is still being used now, like how I'm running MVS on my Linux box using QEMU.
@NortelGeek
When I worked for the phone company, we had four of these at the office. Three of them were for call completion accounting and one was for diagnostic messages from the switch. They were installed in the 80s and were still working tirelessly the day the center was shut down.
@dezmondwhitney1208
From the UK. I began computing learning U.C.S.D. Pascal in the late 80s on a 8086 PC and dot matrix printers were common place then. Local to me Panasonic sold a lot of them. Great memories. The downside of the inkjets that came next is the rip-off ink prices. From your videos , you have a wide range of knowledge of things I.T., and your videos are interesting and thought provoking. Please continue. Thank You.
@VivekHaldar
This channel is a gem! Your in-depth technical knowledge is amazing, of course, but what keeps me hooked is the sheer amount of fun you seem to having explaining this stuff.
@salmorreale7900
I own two oki’s. The 321 and the 4410. These are wide carriage models. Both have the Ethernet adapter option. Use them mostly to print and review code. Will never let them go! I enjoy any and all content that involves dot matrix printers. Thank you for posting.
@GetOffMyyLawn
I loved my Oki Microline 182 back in the day! I was so amazed when I could use fonts that were not built into the printer using Print Shop
@DeirdreYoung1
Awesome blast from the past. I used Jetdirects to rescue old parallel printers too :) Fun surprise, thank you very much.
@mnky75
My first ever job, was a System Admin for a large Paper Mill. Despite inkjets and laser printers being available, Dot Matrix printers were always used, because they just worked. Love them!
@irene002
I repaired one of these today while I didn't know they even existed and it was fun and easy🎉 I am a fan of dot matrix printer now 🙃
@berniepokorski6608
Thank You! I I have a 1990? Toshiba ExpressWriter 420 dot matrix printer. When I donated my 1989 HeadStart Explorer XT computer to the Computer Science Museum in Mountain view, CA back in 2012. they did not want this printer that I had used with it. Rather than let them "e-cycle" it as they offered to do, I brought it back home instead, and it has remained n its original box ever since. Having become involved with collecting and repairing antique & vintage typewriters during the past three years, maybe it's time for me to unbox the Toshiba printer and see if it will come back to life.....😉👍
@c.m.obrecht
I consider to buy again one (Epson LQ 350) after the very old big 1070 died. The reason for me is a complete other than mentioned everytime: I print today very few things and it can take several months or a year and then I should print something. After this time every ink cartidrige is dry, expensive to replace for 1 page to print. And also laser printers didn't made it without failing fastly so I think a dot-matrix will be the most reliable instead of send the files to someone other to print 😆
@hermask815
at that time getting the language specific(french,german, icelandic) characters printed was a bit more challenging than today. also the printer driver wasn't used systemwide and you had to make sure your printer was compatible to a specific model from ibm, nec or epson.
@CleverNinja