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From: esf00@amdahl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now [ is an exploding computer ]
Message-ID: <7873@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 18:44:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.7873
Posted: Wed Jun  3 18:44:36 1987
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Reply-To: esf00@amdahl.UUCP (Elliott S. Frank)
Organization: Society for Infinitesimal Procrastination
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Keywords: roy@phri.UUCP's message of 25 May 87 18:41:36 GMT

In article <1519@phred.UUCP> artm@phred.UUCP (Disaster Master) writes:
>                                                       on at least some
>models of the 1403 printer it was possible to make the thing eject pages
>so fast that the tractors got hot enough to set the paper on fire.

On some models of the the 1403 printer, you could break the print chain
by printing characters in the reverse order they were on the print chain.
-- 

Elliott S Frank    ...!{hplabs,ames,seismo,sun}!amdahl!esf00     (408) 746-6384

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