Punch Cards.

[Knute Johnson]

>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...  ;-)

Or the lid was closed and the whole box of paper was wadded up 
inside, or it got cockeyed, stuck and the hammers cut the paper and 
then the ribbon.  I always hated changing the ribbons cause I was 
always blue afterwards.

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Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...