MySmallWorldof4
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Dot Matrix printer. I had one of those too. I told my parents that it would be great for writing papers in school. Of course I did end up getting a lot of games for it.
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21stamps
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Dot Matrix printer. I had one of those too. I told my parents that it would be great for writing papers in school. Of course I did end up getting a lot of games for it.
Yes! I remember ripping the edges off of the side of the paper. Kids today are so lucky. Print, Grab, Go.
Goofyernmost
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I don't remember exactly when we bought our first computer. I do remember it was a Hyundai. Tower, screen with orange color images only, and a matrix printer. My oldest daughter latched onto that with incredible speed. She and her husband are both computer geeks now and, in fact , her husband works for a large firm managing an IP division. She always had a photographic memory and to this day can tell you the DOS codes for everything. I used it to keep payroll records and correspondence for my business at the time and both girls used it to do word processor assignments for school and frankly that was pretty much the extent of what it could do. I can remember my daughter staying up all night trying to figure out how to program different things. That had to be the middle to late 80's. We weren't the first ones to have a home computer, but, we were far from the last to do so.
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Goofyernmost
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That refined over time too. I remember getting the bundles of attached plain white paper and they all had the tear connection which left the edges kind of ragged. Then along came the much needed smooth separating sheets that gave you sharp clean edges and that became more usable. The spread sheet white and green stripped sheets were the first things available if I remember correctly.
93boomer
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Awww happy birthday Lulu !!
93boomer
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And it’s Monday.
Cesar R M
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That reminds me of the story of one of my uncles..Back at some point in the 80s, I recall some friends who had 2 children (approx. 7-10 years old). So, looking forward, and being on the cutting edge (back then), they bought a computer for the home. The parents looked as it as an investment piece, that would be useful to the kids as they grew older, into high school and college. Little did they know back then, that computer equipment coming along right after that, would be practically obsolete within 6 months or less of the purchase!
But, we all grew up with not throwing out things, and usually repairing stuff if it broke.
His family knew nothing of computers, they were more into musical stuff (they ended all being musicians of some sort).
The interesting part was.. they won a high end (by late 90's standards) computer by Compaq. It was a full desktop with monitor.
That thing was like 2,000 USD back then.
But my uncle, knew nothing of computers and feared the computer would be damaged if they were used by his sons.
So the computer remained packaged for years in its box, never used. And when I visited him.. it was already obsolete (5 years later).
He could have resold it for a huge bunch of money.. but he wanted it to use it, but never managed to get into it to learn lol.
Cesar R M
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Oh gods, I suddenly remember the beeps and bops of the old dial up modems..
And the famous "po rn" viruses and dial up systems that forced you to call to a banana republic town and cost you thousands of dollars.
Cesar R M
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I loved to take the prints of my father, just to tear up the dotted printing holes lol.
Cesar R M
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Can't like this!And it’s Monday.
I'm supposed to be on vacations and my boss wants me to work harder because he's leaving soon overseas :|
MySmallWorldof4
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Figgy1
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Sympathy like
DryerLintFan
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My parents raised us atheist, but kept the tradition of new dresses and bonnets for Easter. I always loved my new Easter dresses and bonnets so I'm keeping that tradition for my daughter too. Here's hers for this weekend:
Unfortunately i let her pick out her own shoes and she chose black sparkly Easter shoes instead of white flowery ones
Unfortunately i let her pick out her own shoes and she chose black sparkly Easter shoes instead of white flowery ones
wdwfan4ver
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My younger brother and I did not have a computer at home back in the 1980s as kids. I first had a computer at home back when was a Sophomore in high school back in the 1990s. The only office equipment at home was a typewriter that my Mom used back in the 1980s.Back at some point in the 80s, I recall some friends who had 2 children (approx. 7-10 years old). So, looking forward, and being on the cutting edge (back then), they bought a computer for the home. The parents looked as it as an investment piece, that would be useful to the kids as they grew older, into high school and college. Little did they know back then, that computer equipment coming along right after that, would be practically obsolete within 6 months or less of the purchase!
But, we all grew up with not throwing out things, and usually repairing stuff if it broke.
My only experiences with a computers in the 80s was in the grade school my younger brother and I went. The school I went to had a computer lab with Apple IIE computers with the green screen monitors with the long floppy disks. The thing is the high school I went to had the same Apple IIE computers with Green Screen monitors back in the 1990s before getting those computers replaced when I was junior in high school.
MinnieM123
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A computer (arcade, etc.) game that I used to love back in the 80s and 90s was a classic: Pac-Man. It wouldn't cut it in today's world, but I just remembered my friends and I having laugh fests over that silly game! It was big fun at Happy Hour places, too.
MinnieM123
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My parents raised us atheist, but kept the tradition of new dresses and bonnets for Easter. I always loved my new Easter dresses and bonnets so I'm keeping that tradition for my daughter too. Here's hers for this weekend:
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Unfortunately i let her pick out her own shoes and she chose black sparkly Easter shoes instead of white flowery ones
That is so beautiful. Does she have a little purse, too? (When I was a tot like her, my mother would give me a tiny purse, and she'd put a nickel inside for me. I felt so grown up with my purse and money!)
