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    From August Abolins@2:250/1 to Kurt Weiske on Sat Nov 21 21:06:00 2020
    Hello Kurt!

    ** On Saturday 21.11.20 - 08:17, Kurt Weiske wrote to JOE MACKEY:

    Keeping with the name of the echo, I still miss my HP
    Deskjet 500. First printer I had, lasted forever. Ran on
    3rd-party ink and refillable cartridges all day long.
    Back then, HPs were built like tanks and were easy to
    work on.

    I have an HP CP2025N Laserjet from 2009. Still works
    wonderfully. I tried the budget compatible cartridges for a
    little while but the formulations tended to produce streaks
    over time. Ever since I switched back to the genuine HP
    cartidges, no problem.

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to August Abolins on Sun Nov 22 08:37:00 2020
    August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    I have an HP CP2025N Laserjet from 2009. Still works
    wonderfully. I tried the budget compatible cartridges for a
    little while but the formulations tended to produce streaks
    over time. Ever since I switched back to the genuine HP
    cartidges, no problem.


    Those old HPs keep on going. I worked at a company with probably 150
    printers scattered around a campus of buildings. I had my new techs
    do a scavenger hunt, and one of the questions was to get a
    configuration page from the oldest printer on campus.

    They found a Laserjet 4M with 500K+ pages on it. I didn't even know
    it was still running!


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  • From August Abolins@2:250/1 to Kurt Weiske on Sun Nov 22 16:55:00 2020
    Hello Kurt!

    ** On Sunday 22.11.20 - 08:37, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins:


    Those old HPs keep on going. I worked at a company with
    probably 150 printers scattered around a campus of
    buildings. I had my new techs do a scavenger hunt, and
    one of the questions was to get a configuration page
    from the oldest printer on campus.

    Sounds like fun. I like the sound of scavenger hunts that
    require a bit of research and resourcefulness.


    They found a Laserjet 4M with 500K+ pages on it. I
    didn't even know it was still running!

    The configuration page was a good way to confirm success. But,
    could imagine that some other students could have sabotaged
    the competition by removing the paper or something.

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to August Abolins on Mon Nov 23 10:45:00 2020
    August,

    Sounds like fun. I like the sound of scavenger hunts that
    require a bit of research and resourcefulness.

    There was a movie several years ago called "Scavenger Hunt". The
    "games enthusiast" named Milton Parker (a combination of Milton
    Bradley and Parker Brothers), had rigged a scavenger hunt...and the
    winning team would get the fortune.

    They were given clues, and could acquire the items in any way,
    except by purchase. One clue was "to mention it is not very dapper.
    It was invented by a man named Crapper. John Crapper to be exact".
    The item was a toilet. :P

    They had an all star cast, and it was bizarre to say the least. <G>

    Daryl

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