Speaking of printers....
Most of my lab equipment are really old.... as my prof said,
'Some of them could be as old as you are'.....
The printer that's attached to my frequency analysis equipment
is so old, it doesn't even use cartridges. Instead it uses a small
marker pen attached to the printer head to draw the graphs that I
need.
No kidding.... marker pen. And it can hold only one sheet of
paper at a time.
hey.. a few weeks ago, they sent a daisywheel printer and one of
those "metal golf ball" type printers for condemnation

i think they were just sitting in the storeroom for a decade or
more, waiting to be officially condemned 