Print Shop was my favorite way to make use of the dot matrix printer.

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The team also showed how a large number of light pipes could be used to form a kind of dot matrix display.

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The new eyes significantly contribute to Furby's range of emotions, allowing Hasbro to design different dot matrix pupils for different moods like anger and innocence.

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Printers have come a long way since those noisy dot matrix machines we once used back in the day (and amazingly some retail stores and airlines still swear by).

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There you met the agent who would pore over dot-matrix printouts of your financial woes.

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We had dot-matrix printers, and floppy disk drives and cassette tape players strewn across every desk in our house.

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He had checked two more bags full of books, reading material, a Compaq computer and, implausibly, a dot-matrix printer for his Compaq computer.

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Gaming on mobile touchscreens isn't nearly so tactilely pleasing as that portable, however, so nostalgic modder Chad Boughton decided to swap out his GB's dot-matrix display for the Super AMOLED of a Galaxy Nexus.

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