Before the 1980s, laser printers were expensive, high-volume units. At that time, dot matrix printers commanded the early PC desktop market for homes and businesses. Compact laser printers ...

t jam. Just as the mainframe has proved to be more robust than anyone expected, so it is with the high-end dot-matrix printer. It?s not exactly a gold-mine, but unlike selling laser printers, at least ...

The subject of the post is the dot matrix printer. Early printers had nine pins, which was sufficient to make Latin characters in one pass. To print Chinese, each character required at least two ...

This is witnessed most clearly in the then-dominant configuration of printer heads—specifically the 9-pin printer heads found in mass-manufactured dot-matrix printers during the 1970s.

Photo by Tracey Truly / Digital Trends Epson has a long history as a printer manufacturer, beginning with some of the most popular dot matrix printers of the 1970s. The company continued to ...

Check out more from the series here. Listener and reader Geoffrey Newton from Falls Church, Virginia, asks: Why do airlines still use dot matrix printers? For many companies that use outdated ...

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long […] ...