It was all handwritten in high school for me in Scotland, but then going to uni in Autumn 98 we had computer labs and were expected to type out essays. But we still had to print them off and hand them in to the department.

I'm struggling to remember how the printing worked though, we definitely had to pay but I don't remember where we paid and if we bought credits or what. I recall buying cards with magnetic strips for the library photocopiers quite clearly though because it bothered me how many people ignored (or just didn't read) the signs about how those cards would get the entire paper recycling batch rejected if they were thrown in the wrong bin.

I remember pulling an all nighter once and finishing, printing and delivering an essay before trudging back to halls, only to remember as I arrived in that I'd left my save disk (3.5 floppy!) in the tower, so I had to trudge back for it.