A photo of my typewriter, a Remington Travel-Riter Deluxe with a sheet of A4 paper in it, on which I have manually typed the output of fastfetch and ping. The typewriter is apparently running Arch Linux with linux-hardened. My shell is sh. It has no CPU, no GPU, and zero bytes of RAM. The ping command was going to 9.9.9.9. All packets were returned with decent speed.
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shit that beats out connecting my 90s serial equipped typewriter to use as a terminal output.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Probably the most cost-effective option is gonna be a used daisy-wheel printer with continuous feed paper.

    I'd guess that the fastest


    if all one wants is a very fast dead-wood terminal


    is probably gonna be some kind of line printer. Apparently some of the late-model IBM line printers were made by a company called Printronix, which is still making printers. One of their printers, the P8C20, can apparently print at 2000 lpm. I can't find any video of one printing, but here's a video of an older 1500 lpm printer from them with the sound-isolation cover open. Dunno if it's running at full speed there, though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I agree, and perhaps some deep diving to find an older dot matrix printer? Should be supremely hackable. I only have experience with these:

    Next-gen teletypes

    They were extremely durable and low maintenance. Also loud and more stress inducing than a modern SMS notification.

    Good times

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