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Re: Programming by dinosaurs [Was: Gwbasic - Help needed please]

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From: Arargh!
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:00

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On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:31:36 +1100, "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>
>Judson McClendon <judmc@bellsouth.net> wrote in
>message news:Yj3w5.9372$XS1.58353@news2.atl...
>> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>
>>> 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.
>
>> I've had listings dumped that way, but never cards.
>> It's the kind of thing that really easy to forget.
>
>Yeah, and the top of the printer was always handy flat surface
>in most installations. In our case it was just a convenient turn
>away from the card reader, so often got used like that.
>
Pity the poor operator that left a pack up there.

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