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From: Roger.W.Brown@dartmouth.edu (Roger W. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Know What You Are Doing
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.150234.9740@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 15:02:34 GMT
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In article <1991Apr1.190102.12345@eplrx7.uucp>
leipold@eplrx7.uucp (Walt Leipold) writes:

> You know the (only) thing I miss from the ol' mainframe days?  Fan-fold
> printer paper!

Here at Dartmouth we still have it, or at least we have it again. We
wrote a Mac print driver that connects to a network based printing
monitor on a HoneyWell mainframe. All I have to do is choose the
lineprinter in the Chooser, print my source from MPW (or anything else
that prints text), wait a couple of minutes, and walk down the hall to
the lineprinter room to get my source on old-time fanfold 14 inch
paper. And all this in a building away from the computer center.

Unfortunately, the lineprinter part is on a HoneyWell and is therefore
not portable. We have thought about doing the same thing with a Unix
host, but the Mac end uses PAP and Unix doesn't know that. I guess it
wouldn't be that hard to switch it to TCP/IP. We wonder about the
demand for such a thing out there in the rest of the world. Looks like
there is some.


Roger W. Brown
Courseware Development
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH