• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Just using “netizens” is enough to show your age, LOL!

    I had a Compaq iPAQ and I think a laptop or two with IrDA back in the day, but I don’t remember ever actually using it.

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      30 days ago

      Oh, I used IrDA quite frequently. I took job notes on my palm pilot, and used HP printers to print them.

      You should have seen the face of the secretary at a customers place. I asked her if I could print my report on her printer (connected via parallel port to her PC, no network). She said yes and stood up, I told her to stay seated, pointed my palm pilot to her printer, and it magically produced a page…