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@sfleetucker @Lucky188 @sjvn Wow! I recall 300 baud. RS232 is still around. Anybody remember smoke signals?
My first teletype was a 110 baud acoustically coupled terminal to an HP/2000. The sound was "cachunk-cachunk-cachunk" as the print head slowly moved across the paper, followed by a loud thunk as the printhead returned to the start of the next line.
I remember when we upgraded to a 300-baud dot matrix printer/terminal, and the sound became "buzz-return-buzz-return"
@sfleetucker @sjvn @BFBucky1 Id still use a dot matrix printer if they weren't stupid priced. I use the inkjet so infrequently its ink dries up. I've also resorted to sending print jobs to our pub library portal where I can go print them for .10 a page. The cachunk sound reminds me of a boroughs L5000 I had for a while. Kept searching for the processor. Someone finally told me that the bed of nails behind the boards with little wires connecting pins WAS the processor.. um ok...
@Lucky188 @sfleetucker @sjvn Wire Wrap! I forgot about those things.