Punch Cards.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 20:34:28 +1030,
  Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> 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.