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Re:"Whatever happened to...?" The odd fates of 25 legendary ... by michael_dorfman on Thursday March 26, 2009 @10:26AM (#533487)
Why would you use a daisy wheel and not an inkjet or laserjet?

I used to have a daisy-wheel back in the day, and the thing sounded like a machine-gun. I can't say I miss it (although the print quality was nice.)

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Re:"Whatever happened to...?" The odd fates of 25 legendary ... by jedberg on Thursday March 26, 2009 @05:43PM (#534214)
The answer was right in the article -- tractor feed paper. 10s of thousands of pages without having to refill a tray.
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Re:"Whatever happened to...?" The odd fates of 25 legendary ... by michael_dorfman on Friday March 27, 2009 @03:25AM (#534806)
In that case, a dot-matrix would do as well as a daisy-wheel.
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