On Sunday, February 28, 2021, 1:29:48 PM EST, W. Bryan Caudle via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

That’s been my understanding of what line printer means.  We have one of these, rebadged for our basic/4 mini and it does 600 lines per minute, or used to last time I ran it: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.recycledgoods.com/amp/printronix-p600-600-l...

Now that brings back some fond memories.  We had one of those on our VAX in college.  One year, I whipped up a little program that would use the Hershy fonts and the dot plotting mode on the printer to do banners in callegraphic Old English.  I kind of treated it as a one-off, but a couple years later someone came up to me and asked how to use the program. That was the beginning of me learning that your throw-away one-offs are the ones that everyone will want and care about, and the ones you labor over focusing on the details of the craft are the ones no one will ever pay attention to. BLS