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
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