Biggest problem with dot-matrices (?? plural??) was the ribbon. I found I could re-vive ribbons with some judicious squirts of wd-40 In the ribbon case.
One of mine is an NX-10, I believe the the other is an Epson. I have the manuals for them and AFAIK drivers are available on line.
Wife1 and I went to a World's Fair in Noo Yawk in the early 60s --not sure if we were married or not yet. The telephone company was just breaking into touch-tone and had a demonstration where you could dial a number on a dial and then on a touchpad and the machine would time you on both dialing methods. Touchtone came out on top every time. I remember wondering what the hell the * and # buttons were for.
They had an offhanded explanation that they were for other functions, and I wondered what those "other functions" were.
And in later years I was constantly frustrated with the fact that "1,2,3" were at the top of the phone dial, whereas I had learned touch-adding on adding machines (and later, calculators) where the "1,2,3" was at the bottom. Dayamcrapballs!
The Fair also had a booth where you could actually see yourself on
Television! "Come on, honey, let's smooch on
Television !"
But she was too shy.
Our number back them was FLushing 3-nnnn and as a small child, I remember my mother drilling that number into me if I ever got lost. This was even before area codes and if you wanted to dial outside your connectivity area you had to go through an operator.
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An "operator" was a real live person you could actually talk to in English. There was no "Press 1 for English.... Press 97 for Mesopotamian..." And "Press zero for a half hour of crappy music specifically designed to get you to hang up in disgust even though your call is important to us....supposedly..."
)
Terry, 230RN
REf:
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/smooch
