[GH85Carrera]

Back in the stone ages the HP LaserJet 2 was introduced about 1987. I was doing the local regional newsletter back then with a typewriter with an home made interface to my Commodore 64.

The club had a good year with Tech and had extra funds to spend so they decided to let me by a Laserjet 2. It was just under 3 grand, just giant in size and built to last. It made a huge improvement in the newsletter. One of the board members seemed convinced I was going to run a service bureau or something and print a lot with that fancy printer.

One of my buddies worked at a large engineering company that had lots of the same printer. They printed a LOT of stuff. It was easy to print a report from the printer to show the page count. I asked him to print a report of one of the busiest printers. It was well into the 200,000 pages and was perfect.

At one board meeting I let that report lay on the table next to me. The one board member about blew a gasket when he saw that. Then I showed him the real report and it was few hundred pages. He decided I was not likely to wear out the printer with our use.

He was the one jerk that was insisting we hold board meeting and follow Robert's rules of order for meetings. We all told him to relax, and no way are we getting that formal. He dropped off the board and no one missed him.