After months of struggle, I finally got an ancient HP omnibook laptop up and running.. It has a win95 (a) OS, no usb ports, and a ebay acquired 2gb HD. The great thing about using this Model T of a computer is the software is free!
If it is free, it is for me.
The next step is finding a suitable parallel port printer, these are no longer made new, but the local Goodwill has everything from a Canon Bubble Jet, to the occasional Apple Laser writer. If one is lucky, not only is the power supply included, but the cartridges are still good.
Or my personal favorite printer, the Okidata Microline 320, these old Dot Matrix printers have a character life of 200 million characters for the print head, and the ink cartridges are a whopping 5 dollars a piece.
Mobile printing perhaps? I like the Canon BJ 10 x series, battery powered, what a great deal for 20 dollars or so, there are even wireless cards available for the old 16 bit Win95, granted, they are slow, but they are faster than dial up.
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