I still remember this massive Xerox machine at UCLA long ago. When I'd make a copy it made such impressive sounds as the power sequenced up that I remember thinking to myself, "Hell, is this a copy machine or a warp drive?"
@lauren First printer in the household was an Okidata dot-matrix.
We had a strict family rule: "No printing before 7AM. If it's important, do it night before."
@TonyJWells @mtomczak I always had a lingering fear that one day when I took the bottom cover off one of those "cake cover" packs in preparation for loading it into the drive, the platters would come loose and smash on the floor.
@mtomczak I always liked to watch print heads printing backwards across lines though. Of course I also liked to stare at big old DEC RP04 disk drives spinning at high speed through the transparent top glass doors. And the gyrations of DECtapes. And ASR33s ... and ... I digress.