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Old 03-28-2011, 10:10 AM   #76
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This was my first computer, inherited from my Dad (and made of wood and ivory , which shows how long ago it was).

I used one of those my first couple of years of college!
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Old 03-28-2011, 11:31 AM   #77
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I used one of those my first couple of years of college!
Me too! I still have it - but no idea how to use it anymore!
I remember working part time jobs to save up for my first calculator - a Texas Instruments model that cost $99 [add/subtract/multiply/divide/square roots]!
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Old 03-28-2011, 05:17 PM   #78
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I repaired many many many of these:
Yes, I had two of those, every morning we would print out cases of paper reports and distribute them to the various shops. They all had VT-100 terminals in their shops, but most refused to use them unless they had their morning "run".

Those monsters would print an entire line at a time, thus the name "line printers", and would sit there going CHUNK-CHUNK-CHUNK as they ate paper and ribbons.
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Old 03-28-2011, 06:21 PM   #79
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Anyone have a Okimate 20 or the Commodore clone of the same?
Thermal transfer printing was amazing at the time!
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Old 03-28-2011, 06:59 PM   #80
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Yes, I had two of those, every morning we would print out cases of paper . . . . . . . . . . . . and would sit there going CHUNK-CHUNK-CHUNK as they ate paper and ribbons.
I had a job in the university of NSW library. They had one of those printers in the basement printing every transaction of every terminal in the building. I think it was a backup to work out what went wrong if something went wrong.
Anyway, every morning I would lug a couple of boxes over to the garbage. Later on I turned it around and had the paper print straight into the waste cart. For months that thing churned out paper that went straight into the dumpster.
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Old 03-28-2011, 07:41 PM   #81
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I had a job in the university of NSW library. They had one of those printers in the basement printing every transaction of every terminal in the building. I think it was a backup to work out what went wrong if something went wrong.
Anyway, every morning I would lug a couple of boxes over to the garbage. Later on I turned it around and had the paper print straight into the waste cart. For months that thing churned out paper that went straight into the dumpster.


Yep, and all because they wouldn't trust the words on the terminal screen that said exactly the same thing.
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