Nah, but I do have a basic no-special-features wireline phone sitting next to the network interface, in case the power goes out and the cordless base station becomes useless.

*LOL*

What would a newer printer do for me, besides print in color? (and possibly have a duplexer, although a lot of new ones don't have that?) If I have humongous documents, 8 PPM is pretty slow, but a more usual use case is printing one page for my tax extension or my nanny's pay stub every other week.

We're not talking some 1980s-vintage laser that weighs 60 pounds and sounds like a jet engine... although recalling how some of the Laserjet Series II (and smaller relatives) were built, I'll bet some folks still have them running.

(My wife has bought 3 color lasers in that time, and killed two of the three. The little Lexmark just keeps cranking, at a way lower cost per page, and a compactness that makes it not worth disposing of.)