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Topic ID: 5
Message ID: 98
#98, RE: Excellent idea, this board.
Posted by Astynax on Apr-16-01 at 00:41 AM
In response to message #96
>
>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...
>

Knowing the folks who run the CS labs, they'd scrawl 'Don't do this again' on my head... with my own blood. They're... protective of their paper stock.

>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.
>

I wonder which is bigger... all of UF... or the Jargon File?

And what would be done to a person printing out BOTH?

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Who now has an nasty idea for a Senior prank"