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.
One of our sons still uses the expression "taping", for video or audio recording, even though there's no tape.
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!
But HP printers are easy and fun to hack! Lots of open targets to pwn. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
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.
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.
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.
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.^ 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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
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. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
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?..
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).
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".