As much as everyone loves to hate printers, the fact that a printer can grab a single sheet of paper off a huge stack even semi-reliably is more impressive to me than 14nm photolithography.
As a printer repair tech, I hate how I can recognize happy printer clunks from sad ones. It is not clinking as an offering, but the noises of a skittish animal domesticated far too quickly
As much as everyone loves to hate printers, the fact that a printer can grab a single sheet of paper off a huge stack even semi-reliably is more impressive to me than 14nm photolithography.
True, but does it need to make mysterious clunking noises for three minutes before it starts?
That’s the incantations in printer language that allow the black
magicink to flowAs a printer repair tech, I hate how I can recognize happy printer clunks from sad ones. It is not clinking as an offering, but the noises of a skittish animal domesticated far too quickly
Rousing its machine spirit
Praise the Omnisiah
My mom ran the mimeograf room in a large high school in Brooklyn. It was so awesome going to work with her and seeing the machines.
Similarly, optical drives have ever worked. what a miracle.