On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 20:34:28 +1030, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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... ;-) You didn't even need a program loop, just a typo in a format statement could put each line on a separate by page.
