[rescue] Entertaining printers (was: Memory usage (was Re: Needed: Older laptops)
Thog of Cave People
thog at thogscave.net
Thu Jul 5 00:36:07 CDT 2007
On Jul 4, 2007, at 11:25 PM, Scott Quinn wrote:
> We had wide-carriage printers and green bar paper in the terminal lab
> when I started in college, in 1997. Things went downhill from there,
When I started college in '86, we were doing FORTRAN on a Prime
running Primos. Printing was done on a band printer, and if you've
never experienced the sound of one breaking, you've missed something
very scary and entertaining at the same time. :-)
-Pete
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