{"id":973,"date":"2013-04-08T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T19:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=973"},"modified":"2014-08-27T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T18:20:57","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-star-dot-matrix-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/973\/retro-scan-of-the-week-star-dot-matrix-printer","title":{"rendered":"[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Star Dot Matrix Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Star<\/a>The Star Micronics Delta-10 Dot Matrix Printer: Mouse with Machine Gun<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

My family owned this exact printer. In fact, I think it’s still sitting in my parents’ attic as we speak. If I’m not mistaken, we used it with our Apple IIe system — the one my dad built from a bare circuit board and a set of cloned ROM chips (much like the one in this 2006 VC&G post<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It’s probably the first printer I ever saw in action, likely before I could even walk. I can recall crawling under our computer desk (the printer was on the floor beneath it for some reason) and watching it print out whimsical banners and calendars from a program like Broderbund’s The Print Shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But what I remember most about it, of course, was the sound it made: like a screeching robot mouse spraying lead into tractor-feed paper with a tiny machine gun. Like any dot matrix printer, once you hear one in action, the sound will never leave you.<\/p>\n

Those were the days.<\/p>\n

Of course, I was still using a dot matrix printer until the early 1990s, so I am pretty much scarred for life. Mice everywhere.<\/p>\n

[ From Personal Computing, November 1983, p.28 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What was the first printer you ever owned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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