[Please note I was sold a bad ver of kernel 2.4.6, and had to remove it]

My HP LJ IIIP:

Purchased it June ’05 at a consignment [thrift] store for $1.98 US. 😀

It’s missing the led cover, power cable, parallel cable, front multi-purpose paper tray, bottom paper tray, and it has a 70K page count [someone had fun w/ it.]

I have a spare parallel & power cable, and I was able to work around the missing paper trays. Running XP Pro, it already has the drivers for use. I had it printing test pages and documents after about an hour. Neat!

Then, in Jul. ’05, I shattered my pelvis in a horrible car accident. When I came home from the hospital, it no longer worked and gave an error messsage. My relatives were using my apt while they cared for me, and I know one of them damaged it, unintentionally of course.

Now that I have time, I am repairing it. It says “Error code: 50”. 90% of the time this means a bad fuser, which isnt hard to replace. I have purchased a used multi-tray, and after I replace the fuser w/ a new-in-box fuser i found on eBay, I will be printing in no time. 😀

I do so love vintage technology, Just check out my chrome Oster Kitchen Center from 1980.

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