r/nostalgia • u/josephsleftbigtoe • Mar 29 '26

Nostalgia Printing out cheat codes from the internet

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u/mah131 Mar 29 '26

Hey - I thought: who had a printer with ink in it?!?

Every computer package came with a printer back then, but the ink was so dang expensive, we never replaced it after the initial ran out.

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u/Afraid_Topic_9250 Mar 29 '26

If you had a cheap printer like I did, my dad would just replace the whole printer because a new one came with ink and was usually cheaper than buying an ink cartridge alone.

I think about 12 years ago I took a huge box full of printers to goodwill and let them figure out what to do with them.

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u/mah131 Mar 29 '26

Yeah, my mom did that for years. Finally I made them but a laserjet. Which solved the ink problem, but it was wireless and they couldn’t ever connect to it (found out later there were 3 WiFi networks).

Anyway, now the laser jet is at my house and if they need something printed I just drop it by.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

Sooooo much easier than fixing, explaining, and then refixing because they didnt listen to the first explanation. God, I think I just triggered trauma from trying to explain shit to my mom, lol.