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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I worked at a place using a dot matrix printer… in 2013. 😱

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, if you can keep them running, they're surprisingly efficient. And they hardly ever jam. But all the printouts look like garbage and feel like you're trying to interpret ancient runes. When we got our first inkjet printer at home, I suddenly struggled to read anything from the ol' dot matrix.