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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Possible way to get more old unix source
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 05:42:09 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1408100537190.86321@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140809145424.GB13364@mercury.ccil.org>

On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, John Cowan wrote:

> In my (non-Bell-Labs) experience, most of that paper went straight into 
> a large trash can standing next to the terminal, unless there was some 
> reason to save a particular stretch of it.  (TTY paper was unpaginated 
> rolls of yellow paper, but later devices like the DECwriter used 
> fan-folded line printer paper.)

And of course the silverfish were very happy.  Does microfiche have a 
lifetime?

> Barry thirteen gules and argent on a canton azure fifty mullets of five
> points of the second,  six, five, six, five, six, five, six, five, and six.
>         --blazoning the U.S. flag

Love it!  One of my interests is blazoning.

-- Dave



      reply	other threads:[~2014-08-09 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-09 14:43 Mark Longridge
2014-08-09 14:54 ` John Cowan
2014-08-09 19:42   ` Dave Horsfall [this message]

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