Sure, cheap 9 or 24-pin dot matrix printers are still sold new, and you can find them at thrift stores pretty easily. I'd take something like an Arduino and add a PC keyboard and dot matrix printer. You can emulate something as the limited functionality as an ASR33, but since that is Upper Case only and technical 10CPS, I recommend either emulating the ASR37 or the DEC LA120. I've forgotten the specs on the former, but it had some interesting tricks that programs like nroff(1) know about. The latter could print as fast as 120 cps, although it could talk and buffer the input data to be printed at much faster speeds and actually did some smart tricks like printing backward if that was going to be faster

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 2:21 PM Sijmen J. Mulder <ik@sjmulder.nl> wrote:

Hi all,

Some time ago I dived into ed and tried programming with it a bit. It
was an interesting experience but I feel like the scrolling
visual terminal can't properly emulate the paper terminal. You can't do
rip out a printout and put it next to you, scribble on it, etc.

I'd like to try replicating the experience more closely but I'm not
interested in acquiring collector's items or complex mechanical
hardware. There don't seem to be contemporary equivalents of the TI
Silent 700 so I've been looking at are standalone printing devices to
combine with a keyboard. But the best I can find is line printing,
which is unsuitable for input.

Any suggestions?

Sijmen