>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... ;-) Or the lid was closed and the whole box of paper was wadded up inside, or it got cockeyed, stuck and the hammers cut the paper and then the ribbon. I always hated changing the ribbons cause I was always blue afterwards. -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
