[Simh] Sounds

Armistead, Jason BIS Jason.Armistead at otis.com
Thu Feb 11 12:36:57 EST 2016


On Thursday, 11 February 2016 12:23 PM Kevin Handy wrote:

> Nowodays, many people haven't even heard a dot-matrix printer grinding away, let alone the huge mass of fans that seemed to make up most of an 11/70.
> Daisy weel printers are also extremely rare now. Line printers (drum, chain, printronix) seem to be nonexistant any more, but were how most of us thought about computers.

I always thought those band printers were the noisiest contraptions.  Always housed in their own sound-proofed box, they let out an awful noise when the lid was opened !
 



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