Local Printing

[Scot L. Harris]

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 10:51, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "BT" == Brian Truter <fedora-list at kurse.damnyou.org> writes:
> 
> BT> I will give this a try, see if I can come up with anything. Thanks
> BT> for the ideas and info!
> 
> Good luck.  It's funny how none of the other responses picked up on
> local terminal printing.  We still use it here because our student
> records system still runs on VMS, but in the old days that's just how
> it worked: you had a parallel printer hooked to your VT100 and the
> application sent codes to switch between screen output and printer
> output.  Does anyone still remember the old days?
> 
>  - J<

Yeah, some of us still remember the old days.  Huge noisy line printers,
decollating machines, huge stacks of punch cards for your programs,
acoustic coupled modems, paper tape, 300MB removable multi-platter disk
drives, core memory, reel to reel tape drives.  

Can't say I miss it.
 
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