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Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Jun 15 15:04:07 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 19:29 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Boxes of 2000 fan-fold sheets that lasted ages, and because you're not
> putting sheets into a tiny hopper, you weren't forever adding paper to
> a
> printer every other day.  Likewise with ribbons that lasted for years.

Those were the days. I typed my PhD thesis in 'em', formatted it with
'nroff' and printed it on a Diablo. The figures were hand-drawn using a
stencil set.

These young whippersnappers don't know what computing is all about :-)

(Cue Monty Python's "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch)

poc




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