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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

my boss has the biggest, ugliest old printer. it's half the size of one of those big office printers, only it's supposed to be a "goes in the corner of your desk" printers. has a feed for dot matrix paper and everything.

it has never broken once.

it has never had any network problems.

when he retired and the firm closed, and we all had a free for all looting the company, if we were the type of people to come to blows over things we would have come to blows over that printer. we settled it over a game of "i'm your boss, i get to take my printer home. go steal a box of pens and one of the other printers"

the monstrosity uses LPT cables. I don't know how it connects to anything anymore, but every once in a while my old boss sends me a letter on dot matrix paper and that gives me a chuckle.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know the sort of beast you mean. Solid enough that you could drive a car over it, and can probably be serviced with just a hammer and a wrench. It was undoubtedly an excellent piece of kit, and I envy your old boss!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Solid enough that you could drive a car over it,

you'd need one hell of a ramp and the car would take more damage than the printer, yeah. one of those. gets fifteen pages to the gallon