From: Harald Arnesen <skogtun@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Remember the ed thread?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:37:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17ec6521-6ac3-402d-6a0d-c11b13082a4f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp9sSvSgh=w3H_qK8W6CS1NApg63+Au7W7UrJpWi=pK=Dw@mail.gmail.com>
John P. Linderman [30.03.2021 00:29]:
> In common to both schemes is that each both styles had 132 hammers
> and when the proper character was in the position needed, the hammer
> fired to make an impression the ribbon on the paper, which was
> caused the noise people associated with computer printers. The
> high-end IBM 1401 had a hydraulic cover that came down over it and
> was controlled by the channel processor (it would auto-open when it
> needed to be serviced - like a new box of paper).
>
> This led to the "first commandment of fancy printers": Thou shalt not
> leave thine coffee on top of the printer. -- jpl
A former co-worker told me he had once placed a deck of punched cards on
top of such a printer...he didn't do it a second time.
--
Hilsen Harald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-30 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-29 14:34 Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 15:09 ` Anders Damsgaard
2021-03-29 15:26 ` Brantley Coile
2021-03-29 15:36 ` Mark van Atten
2021-03-29 15:43 ` Brantley Coile
2021-03-29 15:52 ` Mark van Atten
2021-03-29 15:45 ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-29 15:51 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-29 17:22 ` arnold
[not found] ` <CALMnNGgWrFRjXk5N4PgTj0_Yw3W5nCR2=CYSASM6dnqTooy8Dw@mail.gmail.com>
2021-03-30 8:53 ` arnold
2021-03-29 15:37 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-29 15:42 ` Anders Damsgaard
2021-03-29 15:49 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 16:01 ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-29 18:12 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-03-29 16:20 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-29 19:50 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-29 20:50 ` Michael Usher via TUHS
2021-03-29 20:55 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 21:10 ` Erik E. Fair
2021-03-29 21:14 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 21:53 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-29 22:29 ` John P. Linderman
2021-03-30 4:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-30 7:37 ` Harald Arnesen [this message]
2021-03-30 15:00 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2021-03-29 15:58 Norman Wilson
2021-03-30 0:11 ` John Cowan
2021-03-29 23:21 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-30 3:39 ` Rich Morin
[not found] <CAKH6PiXmR6Jv0bkyOtHuk1ZLV64aeW7bnQkUnzV9-G_JaUVDAA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-03-30 23:38 ` John Cowan
2021-03-31 2:34 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-31 0:54 Norman Wilson
2021-03-31 1:29 ` John Cowan
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