So wouldn't this mean that you could change the channel your mouse is on and continue to wreak havoc?
Not dot matrix, really, but I do miss printers that just f*cking worked.
And what halcyon era was this? You may remember how the Jeff Goldblum character in Independence Day managed to make his laptop talk to an alien computer? At that point in the movie, I burst into hysterical laughter, because I had spent the entire day trying to get my work computer talk to a printer, and both my computer and printer were allegedly built by humans.
There are a bazillion dudes packing up my stuff. Also, I just walked in to see how it's going and one dude was wearing Shane's Mickey Mouse ears. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
How scary and exciting, GC. I have to say that my coast will be delighted to have you and your family.
Printers make me cry.
I hope the move goes well, GC!
My mom was thoroughly convinced the house where she grew up had a ghost in it. It lived in the basement, and her dog refused to go down there and would often bark at the basement doors.
And what halcyon era was this?
Oh, back in the Pleistocene, when I had a computer that booted from a floppy disk and a dot matrix printer, and all I had to do to make them work was plug them in.
Even in the 1990s, I had a little HP printer that was perfect. When did technology get so complicated that nothing just fracking works anymore? It takes all afternoon and much cursing to set up anything new, at least for me.
Today's technology nightmare: trying to convince my external HD that I am, in fact, allowed to write to it. Usually just mounting it on a PC and ejecting it and then putting it back on my Mac works. But not today. And my normal backup EHD isn't working at all. *bangs head against wall*
To be fair to printerdom, I currently have a cheap b&w Samsung laser printer that works reliably now that I have figured out its somewhat persnickety paper needs. (It doesn't like good paper. It likes cheap paper.) My HP color printer is another story.
You'll all be soooo jealous when I say I've got an antique Royal typewriter displayed in my Wall of Books with some other antique technology... like my Ramones Rocket to Russia album.
I have a label-maker, because I kind of have a compulsion to label everything. I was very disappointed when I realized that the labels don't stick to the kind of plastic that the label maker is made of, so I couldn't put a "Label Maker" label on it.
I've got my old Smith Corona from college still. I think I will display it when I'm in my new place.
