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A printer that uses a wheel with all the characters on it to produce output. The wheel spins to the desired character and makes an imprint, then spins to go to the next character. It sounds like a little machine gun. These printers generally aren't used much anymore due to the decreased cost of other printers that can produce graphics as well as text. The one good thing about a daisy-wheel printer is that the text is gen
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Daisy Wheel printer - dold@everxheard.usenet.us.com wrote: TELECOM Digest Editor wrote: month, you can get the PeoplePC Online 'Accelerated' version where They, or at least the name and the kid in the ads on TV, have been around for a while. A couple of years ago you could get a PC and internet service for $29.95 per month, with a new PC every year or two. I think they gave up on that one, and just offer the ISP service now.And I believe they resell Earthlink. I have no experience with them.Me neither.JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services, Apple Valley, CA PGP:0xE3AE35ED Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) /sjsobol@JustThe.net Domain Names, $9.95/yr, 24x7 service:http://DomainNames.JustThe.net/"someone once called me a sofa, but i didn't feel compelled to rushout and buy slip covers." -adam brower * Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '86,Windows 98/2000/2003[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Earthlink has a division which iscalled 'Mail Station', which is an email only device that looks sortof like an electric typewriter. Subscribers get an internet addressof name@mymailstation.com . If you have a Mail Station (you can buythem at Walmart and various places) they use dial-up to send andreceive email. I think the price at Walmart, etc is around a hundreddollars for the device and a year of prepaid service on mymailstation.comif all you want is email, and yes, those folks get a truckload ofspam in their email everyday also. PAT]
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