Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes: On 01/15/2014 06:17 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> writes: So, out of interest, what was the last/most reliable/most desirable DEC true line printer - i.e. chain/band rather than matrix? My first year at college ~ 1990 included VAX/Pascal programming with assignments printed to a true line printer. Happy times in that lovely warm computer room on cold, dark winter days... IMHO, the LXY21! The LXY21 is a matrix printer, a re-badged Printronix machine. Yup. 'Twas still a nice line printer. I printed walls of boxes of greenbar on the LXY21. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.