:loud "eeeeeeeeeeeeeechchcchccggggg" noise:

10/29/2008 11:38:25 AM

... every time i go to a doctor's office or car dealership...

10/29/2008 11:39:27 AM

or dentist

10/29/2008 11:40:28 AM

or bank

10/29/2008 11:40:45 AM

or 1993

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10/29/2008 11:41:11 AM

I remember tearing the tabs off the sides of the paper.

10/29/2008 11:41:30 AM

^ hahaha i used to love doing that when i was like 5

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10/29/2008 11:41:51 AM

green and white lines

10/29/2008 11:41:58 AM

nevermind, old

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10/29/2008 11:42:07 AM

see the worst part is

at the station, the printer that prints our tear sheets every call is a dot matrix

it usually starts printing like 5 seconds before the tones actually go off in the station (b/c the tone-out radio has to recognize the 2 tones)

so whenever i hear a dot matrix printer, i instinctively jump up out of my seat

this is not a good thing when in car dealerships and doctors offices

10/29/2008 11:42:41 AM

evan we all know you can't jump

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10/29/2008 11:43:33 AM

i can jump quite well, thank you very much

10/29/2008 11:44:06 AM

esp. from sitting down

that's fucking hard.

10/29/2008 11:44:07 AM

then i'm about to call ripley's believe it or not

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10/29/2008 11:44:38 AM

i'll get dean cain

10/29/2008 11:45:08 AM

reminds me of Spaceballs

10/29/2008 11:45:50 AM

i, too, have a dot matrix printer in my office...

10/29/2008 11:46:25 AM

Tractor feed!

10/29/2008 11:51:29 AM

I love to fold the tear off side thingies into accordions and shit.

10/29/2008 12:00:59 PM

I used to make those little springey things where you fold both sides together.

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10/29/2008 12:04:29 PM

I used to love making helixes out of two pieces of the side paper you'd tear off them.

10/29/2008 12:07:03 PM

It was so easy to print banners on there too because the pages were already attached to each other.

Too bad they was always in black and white.

10/29/2008 12:08:21 PM

^^,3^,4^ i did this a couple days ago. . . .

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10/29/2008 12:08:33 PM

Can you still buy tractor feed paper?

10/29/2008 12:13:08 PM

The question should be: do you remember punch cards and line printers?

10/29/2008 12:13:29 PM

10/29/2008 12:15:33 PM

^ whenever i see your screen name, i think Vulva

10/29/2008 12:17:36 PM

There was one at wal-mart in the back room that printed so fast it needed 2 fans to keep the ink dry before it folded behind the machine. It was amazing. Had 6 printer heads to keep up with it.

10/29/2008 12:18:08 PM

you're just horny and want vagine.

Quote :

"Too bad they was always in black and white."

That always made me sad. I would also color in the words on the banner so they looked better

10/29/2008 12:19:17 PM

10/29/2008 12:33:24 PM

Quote :

"That always made me sad. I would also color in the words on the banner so they looked better "

anyone besides me ever print them in outline and then get their sister to color the letters in with markers

10/29/2008 12:35:05 PM

10/29/2008 12:49:27 PM

Quote :

"I used to make those little springey things where you fold both sides together."

me too!

10/29/2008 12:59:41 PM

SNAP!!!

THE PRINT SHOP

I still have mine

10/29/2008 1:01:39 PM

We had a color dot matrix printer... I think this is the one

10/29/2008 1:12:57 PM

^ man I used to get so jealous of people that had that printer

we had a pos b&w one until inkjets became popular.

I think people that still buy ink jets today are crazy. COLOR LASER FTMFW.

10/29/2008 1:18:12 PM

I <3 dot matrix printers

10/29/2008 1:31:31 PM

Quote :

" I think people that still buy ink jets today are crazy. COLOR LASER FTMFW."

Photo Printing.
Will not end well on a cheap color laser.

10/29/2008 1:36:51 PM

:loud "eeeeeeeeeeeeeechchcchccggggg" noise:

10/29/2008 6:23:22 PM

I've got one in my attic next to my first pc, an IBM pcxt8088 with blazing fast 25 MHz processor. Seriously.

10/29/2008 6:36:07 PM

bttt

5/28/2014 8:07:37 PM

still got one in my office for printing carbon copy forms

5/28/2014 8:11:30 PM

we've got one at work attached to the main fire protection panel. it records the alarms and such. i was told they use dot matrix printers because they're extremely reliable and very low maintenance.

5/28/2014 8:25:51 PM

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=4089468&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en

this is a peice of complete shit

5/28/2014 8:36:29 PM

We just bought two new $5kish printers to replace our old dot-matrix ones for shipment packing slips.

The new ones are dot-matrix, too.

I know there had to have been a near-war between the head of IT and the accounting/invoicing department which is made up of almost all old ladies who cant stand change.

5/28/2014 9:06:56 PM

5/28/2014 9:11:28 PM

Maybe you have a fax machine?

5/29/2014 10:04:45 PM

In case you didn't get the memo: http://vimeo.com/58200103

5/29/2014 11:43:33 PM

Dad had one on the Tandy 1000 TX in my room. One evening he had to print some 200 page job for work. It ran half the night. They let me sleep on the couch and then brought me upstairs to my room when it finally finished. Still remember that shit like it was yesterday and not 20 years ago.

5/30/2014 6:38:05 AM