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As the years roll by and the advances in technology get better and better I am in awe.
One example , My printer , It is a good few years old , Maybe 10 + and I have abused it several times by leaving it for long periods without printing.
It is a Canon Pro 1000 , I keep seeing comments on line saying you must do a print at least once a week preferably twice a week
I have left it for over a year maybe more due to health reasons and not getting out much.
Also I recently changed my computer from an 11 year old iMac to a new M3 iMac , old one was a wired connection , New one is wireless ( :oops: :$ )
don't tell me I now need a new printer as well ?, I then looked on line to see if the pro 1000 was wireless and low and behold it is .
Now filled with terror at the thought of getting it working wirelessly :eek:
Long story short eventually I did it , Main reason I could not get it to print was that numpty me had not downloaded the driver from the Canon web site , DOH !
Thought I had better switch on the pro 1000 and get ready for a menu of faults , I was surprised it did not give a list
Basically it went into recovery mode , Things kept popping up on the screen saying things like agitating inks and it then made a buzzing / rattling noise
I could hear things happening inside / sliding / Buzzing / clicking this went on for about half an hour then it stopped and displayed ( Ready to print )
So I thought OK let's give it a go at doing a nozzle check and off it went , I could see no faults so did a basic print and that came out good as well .
To say I was surprised was an understatement .
Next thing I noticed the screen said I could upgrade the firmware , Tentatively I pressed the OK button expecting it to never work again but it did , Yay :giggle:
To say I am amazed by the tech is an understatement , Thanks Canon and Thanks the Tech people who make these things work.
 
Graham W said:
Speaking as someone who dosen't understand why electricity doesn't spill all over the carpet when I un-plug the telly, I am constantlt amazed by what technology allows us to do.
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Pretty much the same here. I've worked around Radiology for the last decade or so, and watching people do detailed reports using voice recognition *still* makes me feel like I'm in an episode of Star Trek :)
 
Graham W said:
Speaking as someone who dosen't understand why electricity doesn't spill all over the carpet when I un-plug the telly, I am constantlt amazed by what technology allows us to do.
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Make sure you turn the socket off and turn the plug pins-up as soon as you unplug it.
 
Two more things I read about regarding the Pro 1000, The printer automatically aligns the paper making sure it goes through straight and
when printing the printer creates a vacuum under the paper insuring it is held down when transitioning through , It does this to avoid
The paper coming into contact with the printer head . All very smart :)
 
Graham W said:
Speaking as someone who dosen't understand why electricity doesn't spill all over the carpet when I un-plug the telly, I am constantlt amazed by what technology allows us to do.
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In the early 60s my father owned a TV repair/sales and appliance shop near Plymouth. When visiting customers for repairs etc. it was quite common for him to find a "curtain" over the TV so that the studio could not see into the home.
 
Sangoma said:
In the early 60s my father owned a TV repair/sales and appliance shop near Plymouth. When visiting customers for repairs etc. it was quite common for him to find a "curtain" over the TV so that the studio could not see into the home.
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I suspect many had read or at least knew a little about Orwell's 1984 in those days.
 
Sangoma said:
In the early 60s my father owned a TV repair/sales and appliance shop near Plymouth. When visiting customers for repairs etc. it was quite common for him to find a "curtain" over the TV so that the studio could not see into the home.
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How quaint. Repairing TVs. :D
 
Sangoma said:
Still do it, but oh how different :)
Used to have to wait while the valves warmed up, now you have to wait while the system boots up!
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It feels like there was a sweet spot of about 20yrs where TV’s reacted immediately.
 
Sangoma said:
Still do it, but oh how different :)
Used to have to wait while the valves warmed up, now you have to wait while the system boots up!
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We had a box of various valves and if the telly stopped working we would swop valves around until it fired up again!
 
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