Mod Post - On Formatting

[auntysarah]

I'd like to remind users of rule 6 from the community info page:

6.) Do not change the size or colour of the text in your post. It makes your post more difficult to read and does not make anyone more likely to read it. Similarly, bold, italic, and underline are used to add emphasis to specific bits of text; do not use any of them on your entire

Comments

[lis0r]

Christ, that must have been millenia ago. I remember even my granddad's old Amstrad DMP1000 had 9 pins :S

[auntysarah]

My first printer was a 7-pin Commodore MPS 801, complete with g, j, p and q that didn't descend below the line, because there weren't enough pins to do proper descenders. Happy days!

ETA: Although my cousins had the Sinclair silver bog roll printer for their ZX81 a few years earlier. I was very jealous!

[lis0r]

Oh, I remember wantinng one of them - ISTR they actually had a 2MHz 6502 at the heart of their serial interface, and like the disc drives, you could get them to run arbitrary code (albeit in a tiny amount of RAM) for outboard processing.

It always amused me that the peripherals for the C64 tended to have more CPU grunt than the breadbox itself.

[auntysarah]

The 1541 made a better percussion instrument, in all honesty.

[gesundyke]

i tend to avoid html formatting in conversation.

i do things oldschool. ASCII emphasis!

Yanno, when you want things *bold* /italic/ _underlined_ or to >draw attention< to a -word- or words. :)

[tekalynn]

I miss ASCII art. That's an artform that's gone the way of the buggywhip.

[phoenixvtam]

Dot...matrix...okay, wow, talk about prehistoric technology. That's like, back in the Stone Age along with things like typewriters and Rolodexes.

[tekalynn]

Dial phones?