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

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon May 22 15:25:37 2000

At 01:48 PM 5/22/00 -0500, McFadden, Mike wrote:
>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.

See http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/index.html .

- John
Received on Mon May 22 2000 - 15:25:37 BST

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