[techbio]

Poet William Carlos Williams famously wrote on prescription pads[1] and the constraint was defining in his work's simplicity.

I'm not sold (ahem) that the New York Times newspaper chose columns strictly for the purpose of reading speed.

[1]https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/11870008

EDIT: I've recently been printing text on a thermal printer ribbon and editing with scissors. As the author writes, and as I write less, weight this accordingly.