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Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: 29 Dec 2024 20:56:19 GMT
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On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 07:17:32 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

> I remember being in high school and talking about the latest 486 and
> dual-speed CD-ROM when my English teacher came up to me and asked me
> what was so exciting about that. He told me he was using some ancient
> technology (I don't remember which) and mentioned that the exam we just
> did was prepared on that. I was actually surprised to hear that because
> I recalled that printers in the 1980s other than PC ones were usually
> tiny daisy wheel ones.

My hatred for printers goes way back. The products were laboratory pH 
meters and auto-titrators but they could print out the results. Every 
printer was different, dot matrix, daisy wheels, thermal, and so forth. We 
would send a gopher to ComputerLand to buy a printer, determine what it 
needed to print, and then send the gopher back to exchange it for another 
model. We legitimately bought enough from ComputerLand that they put up 
with the ruse. The worst were the little thermals but they were popular in 
labs. 

I was amazed when I plugged the USB Samsung into the Ubuntu box and it 
just worked. That definitely has not been my experience with printers.