Friends of #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse, I was reminiscing on Matrix just a moment ago and decided to reveal a secret of mine.

Back in 2002, I convinced my parents to buy me a laser printer. They were quite expensive back then, but the cost per page was significantly lower than inkjets.
They asked me why I needed to print so many pages, and I assured them it was for the materials for my thesis.

That wasn't true. I just wanted to print the FreeBSD Handbook and have the ability to print all the documentation available on BSD systems.

I could've just taken the file to a print shop, but the allure of doing it myself was greater.

So yes, I lied to my parents, and the printer was only marginally used for my thesis. But that printer (a Samsung ML-1210, which I still have and still works) allowed me to comfortably study the BSD systems on paper, taking notes, before testing things on my computer of that time.

So thank you, parents, for buying me that printer, and forgive me for the fib 🙂

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