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Article #486Re: Programming by dinosaurs [Was: Gwbasic - Help needed please]
From: Joe Pylka
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:37
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:37
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>Did see someone who was silly enough to put a full box of them
>on the top of an IBM mainframe printer, end up with a tad of a bad
>hair day when the printer ran out of paper and did its usual thing,
>automatically raise the cover with loud whirring of the drive motor.
>He desperately tried to get to the printer in time, and failed.
>
Worked great with coffee cups too.
What? You never had to use Paper Tape???
>It was data too, so impossible to put them back in order again.
>
One learned very fast to make the room and effort to sequence the
cards... and know where the sorter was.. Also diagonally streaked the tops
with different marker colors....
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