From: joe@user.com   
      
   "Peter de Vroomen"  wrote in message   
   news:4472d3b6$0$31642$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...   
   > > Is that big clam shell the printer's "silencer?"   
   >   
   > Yep. I still have a lineprinter with one of those 'silencers' (not TRS-80   
   > though). They hardly work, because all the noise just comes out of the   
   > recesses where the paper is fed through :). And even worse, the pitch of   
   the   
   > noise becomes higher, making it even more irritable.   
   >   
   > These printers and non-working 'silencers' are probably the sole reason   
   why   
   > networks and printer servers were ever invented. :+)   
   >   
   > PeterV   
   >   
   I thought the RS cone of silence worked pretty well.  Then again, it was   
   only   
   really designed for the 'ratatatatat' of the daisy wheel printers.  I don't   
   recall   
   every seeing a setup with OTHER than a Daisy Wheel printer in it.   
      
   Personally, I had an LP-VI that was customized.  (I had put a custom   
   EPROM in it so that it 'matched' my Model II character set.  I ended up   
   burning a number of those for friends.)  It wasn't really that noisy.  If I   
   had to print something long, I went away and got a snack if I didn't want   
   to be around it.   
      
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