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Originally Posted by notmytarga
Leading Edge with 8088 chip. 256kB RAM and the upgraded 40 MB hard drive. Monochrome monitor. Bought in 1985 I believe. $1496 sounds right. Dot matrix Panasonic printer. My brother and mother had similar ones. Managed a 'Big' alumni database of 1000 names and got $17,000 donated for our fraternity with 'personalized' letters before anyone would suspect they were automated on our small sc.ale
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I brought an old dot-matrix Panasonic printer from the 80's with me to college. I had to use a driver for a similar (but not quite right) model to get the thing to print.
I remember finishing a term paper at 2 a.m. and it took it six hours to print 25 pages (it was literally printing about a line of text a minute). That sucker was LOUD too. I dumped the thing in the trash and went out and bought a bubble jet the next day (right when printers dropped below $100 for the first time).