What Were Arrobas

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Essay

What were arrobas?

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Definitions:

Impact Printer

Sometimes called a dot matrix printer. A type of printer that physically impacts a ribbon that places an image on the paper.

Print Head

The part of the impact printer that holds the print wires and impacts the ribbon.

Density Control

The regulation and management of the amount of data that can be stored in a given physical space on storage media.

Multi-part Forms

These are documents consisting of several layers, used to create multiple copies of the same form through manual or dot matrix printing.