in school i was always taught that 300 DPI was the print standard and anything less was unacceptable. Once I started working I learned that we'll use any resolution that will get us paid.

I find it funny that Dragon Quest 3 is mentioned and implied to be the US release... except that it wasn't released until 1992 in the US and under the name Dragon Warrior 3.

In 1989 I bought an inkjet printer, It was one moths wages. A laser would have been twice that so I skipped it.

this is so sad and evident of the time. The Laserjet 2 and the Laserwriter were the same printer. Both made by the same manufacturer just changed slightly to make it different. The sad part, the cost difference was thousands of dollars.

16:39 Who remembers Kinkos?

@gopalm.5521

3 жыл бұрын

I remember Kinkos very well - now FedEx Office

I remember installing the first laser printer on the network at work; up to that point, it was all dot-matrix for standard stuff like printing accounts stuff and so on, and a daisy-wheel for word-processed documents. The daisy wheel was high quality, but incredibly slow and very tempermental. The laser was a revelation, very popular with the users for it's speed - and no more jammed print ribbons and broken print wheels. Generally speaking from an IT support view, printers were the bane of our lives. We got more support calls and complaints about them than any other problem.

I remember my friend's dad had a Mac II with a huge monitor and a laser printer like that... He did drafting. We had a lot of fun with that thing.

@Chevroletcelebrity

2 ай бұрын

that machine was a tool for your dads friend to make a living for his family. it wasn't a toy for you guys to have "fun" with 🤨

That's like$100,000 in today's money for a printer

@TomiTapio

3 ай бұрын

16k is 43k in 2023 dollars

I gotta try that Compuserve thing!

@Finallybianca

Жыл бұрын

It was great much better than prodigy.

I still have a LaserWriter II. It's huge and extremely heavy.

@elgeneralxx

3 жыл бұрын

can you use it as a toilet? poop in yo printer

First mention of Nintendo success in Computer Chronicles?

@NandiCollector

3 ай бұрын

yes!

11:42 The original LaserWriter (Canon LBP-CX engine) looked great, until you asked it to print a full page of black. Then you saw that it was really grey.

What is a 'printer'? And why at @3:44 does he have a caterpillar on his nose?

@ian_b

3 жыл бұрын

It's something your ancestors used to produce "hard copy", the meaning of which has been forgotten.

I actually have preferred inkjet printers over laser printers, but this episode is very interesting to see.

2023: damn laser printers are so expensive. 1968: $16,000 for a printer.........

@alexeysamokhin9629

10 ай бұрын

1987, not 1968

My first LaserJet series II (bought 1988) always printed crooked. A line on the upper left corner was always 1/8" higher than the upper right corner. My still reliable LaserJet 1200 has the same problem. I have owned 5 other brands that always print dead on. Same paper, same document etc. WTH is with HP?

Krishna Copy Center is still around, although it looks like they're down to just one location in Berkeley. Some of the Google reviews complain about the service and the fact that they charge $1.60 to copy or print one page in black and white -- and indeed, that seems to be the price on their website (well, $1.58).

I see Apple was just as arrogant in 1987 as it is today. "Users of Macintosh are not accustomed to stonewalls".

A bit of Marketing Lies at 5:30...

Yes $16K for a printer but most companies wrote that off as a business expense ;) The manufacture was making $$$$$$$$$

PC LOAD LETTER?!

@Chevroletcelebrity

2 ай бұрын

wtf does that mean? 🤨

Printers never supported fonts for printing because they printed any text as an image. And with the advent of ink and laser printers, it was not the saturation of black color that was valued (because they were all contrasting by default), but the ability to adjust the reduction of black contrast to save toner or ink. Printer manufacturers, where there were professional marketers, always set the “toner saving” function on the first page in the settings, those that were not particularly professional did not set such a function at all, but there was “fast printing” (it was of little use, since printing was not very faster) which, due to faster page scrolling during printing, also saved toner

Lasers...lasers are so- 90s? I was going to say 70s..would you stop making me feel old

16,000 for a printer 🖨! What!

@werre2

2 жыл бұрын

laser printers cost the price of a car back in the day

@JJVernig

Жыл бұрын

@@werre2 A nice car at that!

300dpi! Wow!

worst kerning ever at 3:01

I prefer a laser printer above an ink printer for text documents and files, and prefer an ink printer for graphical work and photograph files.

@Chevroletcelebrity

2 ай бұрын

they make color laser printers you know 🙄

@captainkeyboard1007

2 ай бұрын

@@Chevroletcelebrity Who are they that make color laser printers? I have one and use it whenever I need to print documents and files onto paper. Also, I use laser paper, which is brighter than [your typical] bond or copy paper. I have used a color laser printer in the privacy of my home since 2002. Thank you for typing to me.

@Chevroletcelebrity

2 ай бұрын

@@captainkeyboard1007 let's see.....🤔 HP, tektronix, canon, epson...apple even made one back in the 90s. Color laser and dye sublimation printers are better than ink jet in every way. I'm surprised anyone who's even a halfway professional would consider using one but whatever floats your boat. 😐

@captainkeyboard1007

2 ай бұрын

@@Chevroletcelebrity Thank you for typing to me.

to go back in time and show them tech these days lol would be so funny

I love watching these on Linux using a PC 1000 times more powerful than i need knowing that i could emulate 1000000 of these old computers and still have 90 percent of my RAM spare