Subj : Re: NetBSD
To   : Ed Vance
From : Mortar M.
Date : Wed Dec 03 2025 13:48:09

  Re: Re: NetBSD
  By: Ed Vance to Kurt Weiske on Tue Dec 02 2025 18:40:35

 > My mistake, in thinking after I saved my message to you I thought dot matrix
 > printing wasn't in the 1960's.

A reasonable assumption.  Actually, the first commercially available DMP debuted in 1968 by the Oki (later Okidata) company out of Japan.  It wasn't until 1970 when DEC came out with their first.

 > I was thinking more of the Teletype machines printing at 100 WPM.

I used an ASR-33 back when I was in my college's amateur radio club.  I loved that thing.  When you typed on it, you felt like you were doing something special.

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