Of Dots & Ladybugs

Yesterday I saw a dot matrix printer.

A DOT MATRIX PRINTER!

It prints by punching dots of ink - usually black. Cheap and good and economical! The letters looked like little pixel fonts. A dot matrix printer is possibly one of the oldest type of printers out there, dating back to the 1970s. It’s so old! A gigantic machine - klunky and clumsy. They used an Epson dot matrix printer for almost everything in this silly bureaucracy. Hard - that’s how we like our data.

Still it looked ancient! I wonder what happens when one of these monsters break.

I wonder if Epson still have the spare parts. I wonder if they even still make them.

I wonder if they have stocked up an entire warehouse with rows and rows of dot matrix printers. Use them and throw away.

I wonder if they have a special dot matrix printer man specially trained in dotty matrices to come and fix them right again.

I wonder where he lives.