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Message ID: 96
#96, RE: Excellent idea, this board.
Posted by Gryphon on Apr-16-01 at 00:21 AM
In response to message #94
>1.5 feet? geez... where did you print all that? If I tried that in ANY
>lab on campus they'd hang me, after feeding me the printouts

Heh heh... warm reminiscences of the Fuller Labs CCC, with the occasional gigantic wide-carriage band-printer printout up on the op counter with "DON'T DO THIS AGAIN" scrawled on the burst page in black marker...

When I printed the Jargon File the first time, lo these many years ago, I put it on a floppy, then printed it in my room. I left my poor Tandy DMP-120 grinding away on that puppy for a full day. That was the nice thing about fanfold paper: you could print these enormous documents, and as long as you set things up right, it would just nicely fold up into a neat stack again on the floor in front of the table with the printer on it. I did have to replace the ribbon afterward, but the whole document came out legible... I probably still have it someplace.

--G.
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