Political Meme - Cartoon/Joke Thread...Part VII

[Bamaro]

Ah, the old Okidata dot matrix printer. I'd forgotten about the ungodly racket it made...

and the 80 col punch card

 

[Bamaro]

 

[Jon]

Ah, the old Okidata dot matrix printer. I'd forgotten about the ungodly racket it made...

back in the late 90's I sold Drug Emporium 120 Okidata Dot Matrix printers, one for each store. I don't think that store exists any longer. Only large printer deal I ever did.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

back in the late 90's I sold Drug Emporium 120 Okidata Dot Matrix printers, one for each store. I don't think that store exists any longer. Only large printer deal I ever did.

For their time, they were state of the art. We had their top of the line and it produced usable legal documents...

 

[Padreruf]

Anyone ever use a IBM 8088 computer with a floppy disc?

 

[Bamaro]

View attachment 18783 Anyone ever use a IBM 8088 computer with a floppy disc?

Used them on IBM System 3's

 

[Jon]

Used them on IBM System 3's

my dad sold System 3's

 

[92tide]

 

[MobtownK]

View attachment 18783 Anyone ever use a IBM 8088 computer with a floppy disc?

1st computer I ever used was one of these. Journalism class in HS - 1994. One of the only computers in the school at the time - & I got unlimited time on it! The publishing software was amazing for it's time, but we still had to learn to cut and paste onto dummy sheets for printing since the local printing company didn't have the digital capacity.
Working on it - needed readers in HS, but not in the years after till I was 40.

 

[B1GTide]

I took my first computer class in 1982. That was before even the Tandy 1000 was released.

 

[92tide]

I took my first computer class in 1982. That was before even the Tandy 1000 was released.

it was either '83-84 that i had calc 2 and we had some kind of ibm desktop computers in the room. we didn't do any classes on them, they would just give us "free-time" on them from time to time. i think they offered a "computers" class my senior year, but it was pretty much aimed at teaching girls how to do data entry.

 

[92tide]

 

[MobtownK]

 

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One more:

 

[TIDE-HSV]

and the 80 col punch card

My first job at UA was working for the University Auditor and I had to reconcile all 17 of the university's bank accounts, which was all of them except for the AD. They brought those in in trays and stacked them up around the walls of my office, almost to the ceiling. Each month, one would be mispunched or torn - it was up to me to find it. That took up the first two weeks of the month...

 

[TIDE-HSV]

View attachment 18783 Anyone ever use a IBM 8088 computer with a floppy disc?

IN 1983, I co-founded a company named "Digital Engineering, Inc." with a nuclear engineer partner. We used CP/M machines, which ran off those 5 1/4" floppies...

 

[Crimson1967]

 

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