Punch Cards

Ed Gurski ed at gurski.com
Fri Apr 4 13:45:16 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 06:12 -0400, fedora-list-request at redhat.com 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 some  pre-printed form's wording is incorrect, and you the programmer
were supposed to notice it after printing 50 boxes of paper!!!!
-- 
Ed Gurski

Linux User 
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