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People break out in applause, while a group of dot matrix printers manage to produce a sound that bears a disturbing resemblance to a golf clap.

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Siftbot has a dot matrix attachment.

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Damn I wish my dot matrix printer could have done this in the 80's!!

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I think that's the kitty treats being rattled in the background.

>> ^kceaton1:

That was neat.
Why is an old dot-matrix printer running the whole video?

That was neat.

Why is an old dot-matrix printer running the whole video?

Pffff...my dot matrix never does that

As a Londoner I see loads of these computer repair shops with their decrepit bits of hardware gathering dust in the window. It helps that I'm PC-literate but I would never trust this lot. You just have to walk in and sample the atmosphere. I even got taken in by one of them many years ago when I was desperate to get a dot-matrix printer fixed.
Instead make friends with someone who knows their stuff and buy them drinks to keep it all sweet.

This does remind me of working in internal support for an IT company (biggish systems integrator) and seeing some very dodgy usenet groups on a salesman's laptop while restoring his email.

Give it 300 generations and the savanahs will be teeming with 3d printers, worshipping the legendary dot-matrix.

^ Yeah, but my comment is funnier when it's a dot-matrix.

>> ^volumptuous: dot-matrix printer.
Pretty sure that's an HP deskjet.