homeschoolmom Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Haha... I had to teach my daughter how to do that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Do any of you remember DAK Industries? Had the wildest catalogs and most up-to-date tech stuff around in the 1980s? Found this and thought you all might enjoy it... http://www.dak.com/catalogscans/1986computer.cfm I got a wonderful little dot matrix printer from DAK that was the size of a sheet of binder paper by about 2 inches tall around 1990... designed for road warriors... it was a great little thing! Kind of like the one below: Used paper with the paper feeding strips along the sides..... Had a regular COMPUTER for it (a brand new Pentium, too!!!!) but my own printer? What luxury!!!! Only problem with the printer was the paper HAD go in at a particular angle in the back, or it jammed super easy.... But finally I realized that if I put the stack of fan-fold paper under an inverted file tray.... with the 'in' slot of the file tray just at the right angle, pointed to the back.. and put the little printer ON the file tray.... looking it would happily feed the paper up the back and into the printer, and no more jams! And only 3 minutes a page to print, too!!!! And it looked elegant!!!! Mine was burgundy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Do any of you remember DAK Industries? Had the wildest catalogs and most up-to-date tech stuff around in the 1980s? Found this and thought you all might enjoy it... http://www.dak.com/catalogscans/1986computer.cfm I got a wonderful little dot matrix printer from DAK that was the size of a sheet of binder paper by about 2 inches tall around 1990... designed for road warriors... it was a great little thing! Kind of like the one below: Used paper with the paper feeding strips along the sides..... Had a regular COMPUTER for it (a brand new Pentium, too!!!!) but my own printer? What luxury!!!! Only problem with the printer was the paper HAD go in at a particular angle in the back, or it jammed super easy.... But finally I realized that if I put the stack of fan-fold paper under an inverted file tray.... with the 'in' slot of the file tray just at the right angle, pointed to the back.. and put the little printer ON the file tray.... looking it would happily feed the paper up the back and into the printer, and no more jams! And only 3 minutes a page to print, too!!!! And it looked elegant!!!! Mine was burgundy... Wow. Compare that to what $1000 gets you today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 So... where were you? What do you remember? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSmOp-ns6Yw[/media] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8umNO-Dsaw John Paul I Election and First Blessing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 It appears we have another poster in our thread... And here's another poster in honor of Apotheoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 80s, the decade of ugly sweaters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 King of the Ugly Sweaters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 80s.....what an anomaly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 ... it seemed like a good idea at the time..... Just for the record, though. This is me in 1986. NO BIG HAIR. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Here's me at 5yo. Check out my sweet Christmas socks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Here's me at 5yo. Check out my sweet Christmas socks. You'd be hauled off to social services so quickly nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 You'd be hauled off to social services so quickly nowadays. And parents off to jail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I suppose you ate Pop-Tarts-- possibly even ones shaped like guns, didn't you!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Yes. And my brothers ate ones shaped like bullets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 I remember these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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