Kyle Davis on Nostr: Of all the #retrocomputing stuff I see online, there was one device from my childhood ...

Of all the #retrocomputing stuff I see online, there was one device from my childhood that I've yet to see discussed.

The Radio Shack PTC-64 Print Controller.

It was a miracle. Back in the day, you had to wait for your computer feed your printer data, preventing it from doing anything else.

With the print controller (we called it a 'print spooler') you just sent jobs off to print and your computer rapidly would return to do other stuff.

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