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   John-Mark Gurney (encthenet@flyovercountry.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 05:56:50 JST John-Mark Gurney

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   @microblogc Yeah, back then you could order HP printer protocol manuals for free! I got the PCL and PJL manuals. It was fun to be able to make my dad's HP LJ4 display read whatever I wanted it to.

   I also wrote a program to print ascii documents 4 up on an HP InkJet to save paper.

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     MicroBlog Castellano (microblogc@paquita.masto.host)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 05:56:51 JST MicroBlog Castellano

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     @encthenet I remember tinkering with the manuals of my printer and the driver-editor of wordperfect to make my own fonts.

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     John-Mark Gurney (encthenet@flyovercountry.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 05:56:53 JST John-Mark Gurney

     As someone who grew up in that time period, and learned to program C from the Borland Turbo C++ user manual, it truly is a lost art form.

     This is also one of the reasons I've stayed with #FreeBSD as well as it has good documentation, and people care about it and try to keep it up to date.

     > https://chaos.social/users/scy/statuses/113078580465421380