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Remember them?
I just had an order for a ribbon for one of them.
Who the hell still uses what must now be a 30 year old printer?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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DD, do you stock the ribbon for a Okidata Microline 192[^]? I used to have one of those the 80s, along with that cheesy formica stand.
/ravi
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Wow! I had one of those a long time ago, and used it with this[^]. If I had it today, I have no doubt that it would still be working perfectly. They don't build them like that anymore.
Will Rogers never met me.
modified 16-Apr-14 22:42pm.
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Roger Wright wrote: I have doubt that it would still be working perfectly.
I think you meant that you would have NO doubt! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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That is entirely correct!
Will Rogers never met me.
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my Epson inkjet's about 5 years old. That's longer than all the other printers I've owned combined; and IIRC longer than any of the printers my parents have owned since I was a kid. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We have a property management client that has used the same dos version of 1st resort software since their pin printers and the old netware 3.11 server were still cool albeit now in win7 dos boxes off 2008 server
They run all their mailing lables out of the dos app to a dot matrix printer.
As I come across pin printers being summoned to disposal I rescue them and just give it to them as a spare cause
they have been with us well, since netware 3.11 was cool.
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If it ain't broke, ...
And modern printers don't do three-part forms on continuous paper, one white, one pink, one green to follow the product round the building, for example.
Yes, there are more modern ways to do it now but they generally need a fair investment to get up and running.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Hadn't thought of that!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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That's why RFID tags where brought down from the Mount and delivered unto Man.
Paper. Sheesh. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I tried replacing the multipart forms with RFID tags but after the FX80 was through with them, they didn't work anymore and is was hard to read the text on them.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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PS. My FX80 is still working and I still have some spare ribbons for it somewhere. Probably in that box with the 5 1/4" floppies I install DBase III+ from when I set up a new PS/2 55 machine.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You clearly haven't worked in some of the companies I've had to visit... We're talking about people who'd have real problems spelling RFID, and would either try to swallow or smoke 'em.
One place we sold them an industrial inkjet printer, and one blokes job was to makes sure it was working and printing the right thing each morning, then stand at the end of the line and catch cement bags for 8 hours... IQ was not required, or supplied! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Many businesses will only use an impact printer for producing things like cheques - laser printer ink can be scraped off quite easily and replaced with larger figures - with dot matrix and other types of impact printers, the ink gets embedded in the paper fibres and is much harder to alter
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I wonder if my KX-P1124i is still out back somewhere...
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Since you ordered the ribbon, I'm guessing you.
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Impact printers are still useful when you need a carbon copy of exactly what was printed.
It seems pretty useless, as you can just print multiple copies, but it seem that is not how some businesses think.
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We have a 20 years old industrial HMI which has been installed in 4 out of 5 power substation of the country. They use FX-80 for hardcopy of event lists and you know the industries. They won't replace, until it is broken. So we still have to maintain those printers 
Behzad
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When Restart Manager[^] was introduced, MS claimed it would reduce the number of restarts required when updates were applied.
Well, I haven't noticed any decrease in the number of times I have to restart after applying updates! It's so annoying.....
Thank you.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Let's assume it's 75% effective in avoiding a restart. That means on a typical patch Tuesday 2 of the patches will require a reboot instead of all 8 of then. You're still going to have to reboot then. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Is a reboot every now and again really that painful?
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Painful enough to post a small rant on Code Project? Yes.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Given some of my rants I cannot deny you that right.
But the whole armed revolution thing you've detailed in your blog is a bit over the top, isn't it?
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Heat of the moment.  
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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