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

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Mon May 22 16:34:02 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
>

Yes, but you dont have the actual ASCII text files available for download
from your web pages...

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Mon May 22 2000 - 16:34:02 BST

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