Sweet. I miss dot matrix printers and the days where you could hardly go into any business without hearing that old, familiar sound that is now rarer and rarer.
Funny thing is , I never understood why anyone would want to use an inkjet. They are expensive to run, slow, blotty and often don't work well. DMP is clearly more reliable!
@@AlsGeekLab The first one I had as my own was a Tandy DMP-133 that I used on my CoCo 2. Later, I used it on my Amstrad PC1512DD and then on my first PC build, a 486. I think I finally got an HP DeskJet 660Cse for Christmas of 1995, I believe. I used several other dot matrix printers from time to time throughout those years, though.
@@BollingHolt my one was an Amstrad branded thing. DMP- something-or-other. It had a dodgy pin so had a line through every character, making it an 8 pin printer!
We had one of these when I was a kid (well, an LC-10, which is what this was called in Europe), hooked up to an Atari ST. Those dot matrix printing noises are so nostalgic!
Am I remembering correctly, the LC-10 could also take "tractor paper", with punch holes on the sides? I used to have an LC-10 for my Atari ST but I may be confusing it with an earlier printer for my Commodore 64.
Sweet. I miss dot matrix printers and the days where you could hardly go into any business without hearing that old, familiar sound that is now rarer and rarer.
Funny thing is , I never understood why anyone would want to use an inkjet. They are expensive to run, slow, blotty and often don't work well. DMP is clearly more reliable!
@@AlsGeekLab The first one I had as my own was a Tandy DMP-133 that I used on my CoCo 2. Later, I used it on my Amstrad PC1512DD and then on my first PC build, a 486. I think I finally got an HP DeskJet 660Cse for Christmas of 1995, I believe. I used several other dot matrix printers from time to time throughout those years, though.
@@BollingHolt my one was an Amstrad branded thing. DMP- something-or-other. It had a dodgy pin so had a line through every character, making it an 8 pin printer!
@@AlsGeekLab LOL! All my pins seemed to fire alright ;)
I need one of these in my retro computer workshop! Color dot matrix is such a cool technology!
It brings me joy every time I look at it!
We had one of these when I was a kid (well, an LC-10, which is what this was called in Europe), hooked up to an Atari ST. Those dot matrix printing noises are so nostalgic!
please for the love of god NO more background music !
Next time, show us some color printing as well as a close-up of what the NLQ mode looks like :)
I'll make a follow-up quicky for ya!
@@AlsGeekLab Don't make it for me, make it for you, and your audience!
@@JimLeonard ah Jim, you're special, but not THAT special! Of course I'd be making it for everyone!
I had one of these hooked up to my Tandy TRS-80... I saw someone reink the ribbon the other day with WD40 :)
Am I remembering correctly, the LC-10 could also take "tractor paper", with punch holes on the sides? I used to have an LC-10 for my Atari ST but I may be confusing it with an earlier printer for my Commodore 64.
Yes it was primarily designed for tractor feed
Some colour printing at least! :p
Yeah, I really should have demoed that with a bit of Harvard graphics!