The ultimate steampunk machine? Toshiba glued an old-school dot matrix printer with a DVD drive, a touchscreen display and a PC with two SSDs — and it even runs Windows 10 advertisement ...

But in 1988, the only technology most people could afford was a “dot matrix” printer that sounded like an old-school typewriter as it grinded away pulling a roll of paper through it.

These days a printer — especially one at home — is likely to spray ink out of nozzles. It is getting harder to find home laser printers, and earlier printer technologies such as dot matrix are ...