Edited by author 08-07-2002 05:08 AM
My first printer was a teletype. My dad bought it second-hand in about 1979, and worked out an ASCII->baudot convertor. It used to shake our entire house when he printed out BASIC listings.

The best bit was that it had no '<' or '>' signs, so he filed down a spare 'K' and 'A' keys and stuck them in one of the lesser used corners of the character set.

The more I live, the more I realise how cool my dad is.