u/jakedata

Dropping off a donation and popped inside a thrift store. Found a brand new looking Panasonic KXP 1080i dot matrix printer for $15. Last saw one like that in 1992 so I bought it for no reason whatever. Splashed another $10 for a USB-Centronics adapter. When I heard the song of the dot-matrix again I was inexplicably filled with joy. BTW, tractor feed paper has gotten EXPENSIVE and greenbar is almost unobtainable in 9.5x11.

I'm bringing it to the office today to share my happiness.

Update: total whiff on the USB adapter, this IEEE1284 USB adapter is incompatible with the ooold SPP parallel port. It would fail during the negotiation and reset. I ordered an Epsonnet print server off fleabay that I'll direct run to an empty ethernet port on my box. Now I have to get it working, my pride is on the line.

I'm a propane stove, hand ground pourover coffee kind of guy. I recently received a Nespresso Vertuo machine and a bunch of coffee pods so I decided to stick it on the watts-up meter to evaluate it for mid-day caffeine top-ups. I was super surprised to see that brewing 8 oz of coffee only used around 20 WH, flash heating water on demand rather than storing it hot. It uses 0.5 watts on standby and bursts between 350 and 1300 watts for under two minutes brewing a cup. That is totally manageable for my existing kitchen inverter and the vampire load won't matter because it will be completely powered off between uses.

It won't change my morning routine because I love grinding coffee and having a big pot ready for when the fam finally wakes up, but it has found a place in camp #2's minimalist kitchen.

Nothing’s wrong and I know the key trick, I just want to poke around. I’m wondering if anything is cheap enough to throw in the toolbox just in case? 1994 ZJ 4.0