WurdBendur wrote:
Oh yeah, the old dot-matrix printers with an ink ribbon and and a whole box full of paper with the wholes in the edges? We used to have one of those, and an ancient Commodore 64. They're so loud, and the print quality is terrible, but they're still cool.
I had a Commodore computer many years ago. I started with a Vic-20, then a 64, then the 128. I also had a Star SG-10 dot matrix printer that was noisy and slow as anything. Still, the print quality wasn't too bad. That thing ran for 10 years and was still running when I finally sold it for around $20. I bought a Deskjet printer for HP which had better print quality, color, and printed faster. It was also getting harder to find ribbons for it, but I did find a typewriter ribbon that worked in it that only one store sold. Up until recently, I still had a partial box of tractor feed printer paper that I was using as scratch paper. I rarely throw anything away and use it as long as I can.
Now I have a printer/scanner combo from HP that I paid less for than either of the printers I described. It also has slots for camera cards. It's amazing how far we have come.
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