It's been many years since printing from a PC involved little more than buying a printer and some ink, then purchasing extra cartridges when needed. Today, the...
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.
No love for the 9 pin dot matrix?
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.
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
Bit late now, but a tiny squirt of WD-40 into the ribbon cartridge often got you another few hundred pages out of it.
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.