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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC
The cool thing to do was to try to make your printer print like a typewriter, otherwise professors knew you used a word processor and didn't give as good a grade as if they thought you handed in a perfectly typewritten paper from a manual typewriter. The non-dot matrix, ball and ribbon printers like okidata were to die for.
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I used to have an interface box that I made for my Commodore 64 that hooked it to a Brother daisy wheel typewriter. It was a real kludge but I could use the word processor of the C-64 to type up a letter and then have the typewriter output it. I even had a couple of daisy wheel fonts.
I figured out how to make it do columns so I ended up doing the War Whoop with it. That was real work! No page layout software, no spell check, just a C-64 and a typewriter, page flats and a waxer. It was great when I moved up to a real powerhouse 4.77 MHz Compaq, DOS 2.1 with dual floppies 256 K of RAM and a 5 inch green text on black background screen. No graphics at all, just text. I got a pirated version of Ventura Publisher 1.0 and bought the original Microsoft mouse with a steel roller ball and two big green buttons. It has “patent pending” on the bottom of the mouse. I still have the mouse and the 2.1 DOS floppies.
I am a geek too.
