On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 20:34 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 04:51 -0400, Ed Gurski wrote: > > The card reader jams were common and so was the old drum/chain printers > > --- jamming paper during a printout was common. > > And did you ever have someone dead loop their program sending form-feeds > to a printer in another room, the wrong printer, that nobody saw > churning its way through an entire box of paper? The really big A3 > blue-stripe fan-fold. Even worse when the paper-output spills out of > the hopper... ;-) The discussion reminds me of the line printer art from those days: copies of the Mon Lisa, an Albert Einstein portrait, a pinup, and others, and IBM 1403 chain printer music (http://staging.computerhistory.org/exhibits/highlights/). -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
