Punch Cards

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 11:19 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 09:45 -0400, Ed Gurski wrote:
> > Or some  pre-printed form's wording is incorrect, and you the
> > programmer were supposed to notice it after printing 50 boxes of
> > paper!!!! 
> 
> You'd often see that sort of thing when someone thought they could do a
> better job of working out where the top of the form was, and they'd
> count lines in their program, doing all form placement using line feeds.
> Instead of not trying to print on all available lines, telling the
> printer the real form height, and using a form-feed command to let the
> printer find the top.

Absolutely the worst case for this was when printing checks.

VOID	VOID	VOID	VOID...

> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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