[rescue] Printers (was: Memory usage (was Re: Needed: Older laptops))

[Mark Brown]

Scott Quinn wrote:
> We had wide-carriage printers and green bar paper in the terminal lab 
> when I started in college, in 1997. 

Heh - wide carriage printers. Esp. daisy wheel.  They always make me 
chuckle a bit. Circa 1994 I was given a surplus Canadian government 
issue daisy wheel - IIRC it was a DEC Spinwriter.  Huge heavy thing.
At this time - I was on the outs with my folks, but my younger brother 
still lived at home, and had been bitten by the computer bug.  I think 
he was doing multinode BBS in Desqview, in 2 meg of RAM, from floppies 
(poor high school student).
Knowing full well that he had lots of things to print, I manually 
re-packed the ribbon cartridge (what a mess!), and left the printer with 
him.  It sounded like a Gatling gun in my parents bungalow.  Heh!


/M