Post AsUn2Z5arOjNeYfpPE by Novyx@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AsUlnzCrNJMgM9YaXo by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-27T23:32:47Z
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totally normal thing to happen in 2025:I have plenty of tractor-feed printer paper, but no copy paper for my laser printer.
(DIR) Post #AsUlqMG8dUKeQtDmYy by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-27T23:33:12Z
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sadly my dot-matrix printer isn't network-printable, since my pentium running win95 isn't on the network
(DIR) Post #AsUmVhz6laC3gYyNzU by billgoats@bitbang.social
2025-03-27T23:40:37Z
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@foone that doesn’t sound like a reason to stop you!
(DIR) Post #AsUmYYeJvnjfbLbmfA by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-27T23:41:05Z
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@billgoats I mean I could print to a PDF and put that on a floppy disk and sneakernet it over there, but yeah. too much work
(DIR) Post #AsUmliaeHbeSCGANEG by billgoats@bitbang.social
2025-03-27T23:43:36Z
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@foone I was more thinking along the lines of conjuring up a parallel-WiFi bridge 💁
(DIR) Post #AsUmy47k2xfkSQX6WG by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-03-27T23:45:47Z
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@fooneIt's not on the network *yet*.
(DIR) Post #AsUn2Z5arOjNeYfpPE by Novyx@mastodon.social
2025-03-27T23:46:37Z
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@foone I would actually love an easily usable modern dot matrix printer. I probably still wouldn’t use it, but I’d be happy to be able to have one.
(DIR) Post #AsUpkbUzSjEtmCgDNA by quizzicus@mastodon.online
2025-03-28T00:16:48Z
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@foone tractor-feed paper can become copy paper, but not the other way around.
(DIR) Post #AsVsWmps7ZhstSd0YS by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T12:22:49Z
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@RealGene I saw one at ewaste a few weeks back, and I remember asking @gewt if we needed one.
(DIR) Post #AsVtBDIDApOgX3A1eC by Pyxaron@dragonchat.org
2025-03-28T12:30:06Z
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@foone That's a problem that has thousands of solutions for floating around!Also, you may be surprised by how many dot matrix printers did eventually have an ethernet interface card as option.
(DIR) Post #AsWCgFCM2MdGY2vnZg by gewt@san-junipero.gimme-sympathy.org
2025-03-28T16:07:45Z
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@RealGene @foone wonder what OS those things run
(DIR) Post #AsWCgGXf2dGmiPuKQK by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T16:08:34Z
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@gewt @RealGene os/2. I hope
(DIR) Post #AsWCkj2j1872GgZ2A4 by gewt@san-junipero.gimme-sympathy.org
2025-03-28T16:09:28Z
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@foone @RealGene fun fact: for awhile a bunch of ibm mainframe stuff did os/2 for the service elementnow it’s linux