Writing checks

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  1. Prodigyplace

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    We still make use of fax modems here. Our large printers can fax as well.
    Even in these days of VoIP phones, regular landlines are needed for elevator emergency phones, etc.
     
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    One of our sons still uses the expression "taping", for video or audio recording, even though there's no tape.
     
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    You didn't expand my quote at #52 which swallowed my reply!

    .. and I thought everybody knew, a tick is 50% of a mechanical clock's vocabulary!
     
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    But HP printers are easy and fun to hack! Lots of open targets to pwn.

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    Don't get me started about HP printers... I was seriously considering bumping ours off, in the driveway. And then there's the sad demise of quality in their RPN calculators.
     
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    My 1995 HP Color Laser 5m still works fine and it’s still on the same toner and supplies it came with when we bought it.
     
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    Mine was a photo print inkjet from hell, between mechanical issues and near impossible network connectivity. Yeah lasers seem much more bulletproof: we have a brother led (sim to laser) that never has problems.
     
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    I have a cool Xerox solid ink printer, they bought the technology from Tektronics and have dropped it, but it is like printing with crayons.^

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    When my wife changed jobs, the only thing she missed was the printer, so I bought her one and she does not miss the old job at all.

    ^As a parent, the smell of melted crayons can instill fear until I remember it is the printer.
     
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    Does it color within the lines? :D
     
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    It does use wax cartridges.
     
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    Yes, very little waste packaging.

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    You watch Coronation Street?

    My parents still do, religiously.

    In my view, it jumped the shark when [SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU ARE MORE THAN 25 YEARS BEHIND ON A BRITISH SOAP OPERA] Alan Bradley ran away to Blackpool with Rita Fairclough's money and then got run over by a tram.

    For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, it's a three-times-a-week gritty Northern English soap opera. One character, Ken Barlow, played by Bill Roache, has been in it since the first episode in 1960.
     
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    China's State-owned Asset Supervision and Administration Commission still insists on faxes to arrange meeting appointments. I have to send my staff to a photocopy shop down the road from the office that has a fax machine.

    I'm tempted to try your line next time.
     
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    Thank you.

    As @2k1Toaster , @Mendel Leisk and @Prodigyplace say, you're not writing a check.

    In fact, the reason the people at the grocery story have to wait while you're paying that way is BECAUSE THERE'S A Q.
     
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    I had a cheap HP LaserJet I bought in the 1990s. Dumped it when I couldn't get inexpensive cartridges for it anymore. I couldn't get drivers for it either, so it was no great loss. Now I have Samsung printers, but HP bought that. Printing is doomed.

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    In Naperville IL, they used to have "Dial 9-1-1" on the police cars. But, it wasn't removed for the reason you might think. The Chief of Police was named Dial, and it was thought to be politically incorrect.

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    As @2k1Toaster , @Mendel Leisk and @Prodigyplace say, you're not writing a check.

    In fact, the reason the people at the grocery story have to wait while you're paying that way is BECAUSE THERE'S A Q.[/QUOTE]

    Hmmm, I think I am writing a check. The cashier takes it. I leave with my goods. The check -- cancelled -- comes back to me at the end of the month in an envelope with my account statement from my bank.

    When I ONCE wrote a check at a WalMart, the checker took the check, ran it through a scanner and then the check was handed back to me.

    In that instance, was I writing a check or not? Kind of "does a tree falling in the forest make a noise" question -- is it not?..
     
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    You were writing a cheque.
     
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    :)
    I remember that. I also remember Pradel as both Officer Friendly and Mayor. And we're the only two people here with this knowledge (probably).
     
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    Oddly, I have a 2001 model HP LaserJet 1200 that I literally found in a Dumpster 10 years ago. Right next to it was a new-in-box spare toner cartridge. I'm still using it at 17 years old, and I haven't even opened the spare cartridge yet. It was getting a little sluggish printing huge .pdf files, so I just upgraded the RAM from 8 MEG(!) to 40 MEG(!).

    One case where "they don't make 'em like they used to".
     
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