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Article #493Re: Programming by dinosaurs [Was: Gwbasic - Help needed please]
From: Rod Speed
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:31
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:31
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Judson McClendon <judmc@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:Yj3w5.9372$XS1.58353@news2.atl... > Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote >> Did see someone who was silly enough to put a full box of them >> on the top of an IBM mainframe printer, end up with a tad of a bad >> hair day when the printer ran out of paper and did its usual thing, >> automatically raise the cover with loud whirring of the drive motor. > I've had listings dumped that way, but never cards. > It's the kind of thing that really easy to forget. Yeah, and the top of the printer was always handy flat surface in most installations. In our case it was just a convenient turn away from the card reader, so often got used like that.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,5aba3994e6274daa X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 10ab99,a599dc4ee8a84eb5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ab99,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-14 14:31:30 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news-in.nibble.net!feed.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!newsfeed.ozemail.com.au!ozemail.com.au!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic,aus.computers.ibm-pc References: <39B58359.C2227A06@bigpond.com> <8p432t$rpq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39B7B76F.AEC65149@bigpond.com> <C8Rt5.10441$qL5.69289@news3.atl> <39B9D753.3C551805@bigpond.com> <4vqu5.2934$Ik.16682@news2.atl> <bIsu5.560$6f1.70169@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <mkNu5.525$%p.2653@news1.atl> <8pi4pn$msb$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au> <f6qtrscqb5f8potac2mfbb8p90kjq3jk6n@4ax.com> <EUHv5.15922$cr3.414366@ozemail.com.au> <Yj3w5.9372$XS1.58353@news2.atl> Subject: Re: Programming by dinosaurs [Was: Gwbasic - Help needed please] Lines: 18 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: <Gsbw5.16812$cr3.443629@ozemail.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 1cust195.tnt1.griffith.au.da.uu.net X-Trace: ozemail.com.au 968967078 210.84.49.195 (Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:31:18 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:31:18 EST Organization: OzEmail Ltd, Australia Distribution: world Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:31:36 +1100