OT: Show how old you are with printer/punch card control codes.

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Mon May 22 15:03:52 2000

> We used to turn over the paper and attempt to print "pictures" after hours.
> Somewhere I still have a 9-track tape from 1975 that has a "beautiful" woman
> on it. I heard that IBM sequentially printed Christmas banners at a trade
> show by using 3 printers each with a different color ribbon, Red, Green,
> Black, and feeding the paper continuously through each printer in turn.

The last time I put those ASCII pictures up on a FTP site, our security
guy made me take em down or edit out the nude ones from the RTTY
days... Apparently someone found em, and started spreading the word, and the
activity popped up on his security monitoring software, so he checked why
so many downloads were occuring from my Staff FTP account ;) ;)

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Mon May 22 2000 - 15:03:52 BST