There was much whooping and hollering, as there often is when a dot matrix printer screams into life in a suburban household. We were getting closer, but we needed just a little more. Spraying ...

What do you do when your dot matrix printer’s ribbon is torn to shreds after decades of use, and no new cartridges are available? You might like to attempt a ribbon transplant from another ...

Also known as a "serial dot matrix printer." The dot matrix printer uses one or two columns of dot hammers that are moved across the paper. The hammers rapidly press the ribbon into the paper ...

2" (57mm) 24/40-Column Dot Matrix Printer with Serial/IrDA Communications. Features: A full range of communication interface versions are available: RS-232 Serial ...

Description: design language, these products guarantee maximum compatibility across Fujitsu systems. This enables “one-stop shopping”, saving you time and money. The 24-pin DL series dot matrix ...

An early impact printer that combined band printer and dot matrix technologies. It used a revolving band, but dots were on the band instead of the actual characters. Bands with different dot sizes ...

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s ...

Excerpted from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, by Thomas S. Mullaney. Published by The MIT ...