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The printer that burned the page

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22 August 2026

HistoryHardwareZX Printer

No ink, no ribbon, no thermal head. The Sinclair ZX Printer wrote by burning a layer of metal off the page with 50 volts — and it talks to the computer through an I/O port nobody remembers, because nothing else on the machine ever used it.