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1. 27 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   It reminded me of a square El Camino

2. about 2 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   My first was not really a printer – an ASR 33 teletype with the yellow paper rolls (white was available but more expensive). It used a ribbon, like a typewriter, and printed at 10 characters per second. Same speed for the punched paper tape reader/writer. Fortunately no place for a snake to hide!

3. about 2 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Is that the HP 1200? I still have mine which I got not long after it was introduced in 2001. A replacement paper tray (the cat jumped on it) cost me $13 a few years ago.

4. 2 months ago on Andertoons

   Well, yes – your life expectancy was good IF you survived infancy, childhood, giving birth, plague (and other diseases), famine, crime, and war.

5. 5 months ago on Frazz

   Back when I was in high school, it was paper straw wrappers. I’m not sure what the adhesive substance was; it probably varied depending on the menu. The classroom that the boys used for eating lunch looked like a cave with masses of stalactites. Girls usually ate in the Home Ec room and kept it clean. Which of the two rooms we went to wasn’t assigned, we just sorted out that way.

6. 6 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Big box but with a very small screen.

7. 6 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   We didn’t yet have a TV then, but one of the other kids in my 7th grade class did. My teacher arranged to take the class to their house to watch the coronation. This was in rural Pennsylvania, so it was a small class .

8. 6 months ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Ah yes, the Boston Model KS.

9. 6 months ago on Free Range

   It’s been that way forever – at least since I was in high school almost 70 years ago.

10. 7 months ago on Andertoons
    Or think of the denominator as 1/20 so it is 0.25 /(1/20) = 0.25 * 20 = 5