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closeyoureyes wrote:

nikki4982 wrote:Me too!!! When I was growing up, I used to make all kinds of stupid little flyers and junk and print them out.

I used to get in trouble for like.. wasting ALL the ink in the printer

I didn't. Hehe. My daddy got a color printer cos I wanted one.

This was back in like... the eighties when they were all still dot matrix, and color was practically unheard of.

nikki4982 wrote:It was all text based and mainly bulletin boards, I believe.

Oh man, bulletin boards? I can't believe those ever existed! Soooo passe.

I know, right? What loser would spend his time THERE?!

We still have a dot matrix printer. I shit you not. Although I think in the past couple years my dad's been unable to find ink cartridges for it and thus finally stopped trying to use it

We had a ZX81 when I was teeny. If you wanted to play a game, you had to program it yourself. The one I liked I think you had to direct some bird around the screen to get things.

Then we got a Spectrum that was keyboard with a tape player at the end of it.

And then we got a PC after that.

We have the dot matrix too. We have boxes and boxes of paper, so I still just rip those edges off and use it in my printer

I only played games on school computers. Pong and Oregon Trail. I want to play Oregon Trail again.... When my friend got it in color on her computer it was more addictive than the cm.

We still have a dot matrix, too. We're almost out of regular paper for it finally, but my mom uses it to print invoices that we can't print on a regular printer.

I don't remember when we first got internet access. I played and downloaded games on local BBS's before that though.

Henrietta wrote:I want to play Oregon Trail again.... When my friend got it in color on her computer it was more addictive than the cm.

More addictive than the CM?!?!

i have a dot matrix printer!!!!!

i didn't contribute because i didn't know that was what it was called

anyway. it's a Panasonic KX-P2023 "Quiet Printer". you can hear it going from anywhere in the house. but alas, it must have been the height of noiseless technology back in its day.

Haha, that's what we have, too. ^5

Oh, and it was. The printer we had before it was far louder.

^5!



i hate it. but it's so beautiful.

edit: in..an ugly sort of way.

I don't remember what kind our old dot matrix was. I remember working on school assignments after my family went to bed and being afraid to print because it would wake everyone up! And it shook the whole computer desk when it was printing

Yeah, it shakes the whole desk.

Ours isn't quite like that, it's a different model. The buttons are on the front.

I used to have a typewriter!

i still have a typewriter! 'cept it's my dad's. i wish it were mine though. i looooooove it.

*imagines writing his essays on a typewriter*

I wrote some school assignments on a typewriter in elementary school.

And when I taught my dad to work on a PC, it took him months to understand the backspace key because he was always trying to figure out how to re-type over the letter on the screen (like you can with white tape on a typewriter). I'd be sitting in my room doing homework and my dad would be on the PC yelling "Kathy... I need help with this"... and sure enough he'd need me to delete something he had typed. I remember how frustrated I was with him!!!

Awww, technology and it's frustrations.

You should've just turned on "insert" for him.