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I had it too on my Amiga. Same time about. My father also had one of the first color inkjets from work that mostly stayed at our house.

I'd include color photos in my school reports. Teachers stared open-mouthed at them. It was like having a superpower.

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Funny! You made me remember some friends who did that. And I still recall some of the replies from people like drama teachers, wondering exactly how much advanced hardware, and at what kind of prices, contributed to the design of a homework report on a short film we had watched in class. Incorporating images from the early WWW, or was it Encarta.

As I recall it was take-home hardware used by a Boeing employee (and his family...).

I remember buying, for $500, an HP Deskjet 500C, that printed at 300dpi, and you had to swap the black cartridge for the color cartridge (CMY, no K), depending on what you wanted to print.

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