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From: hinojosa@hp-sdd.hp.com (Daniel Hinojosa)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <1742@hp-sdd.hp.com>
Date: 6 Feb 89 20:43:06 GMT
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In article <1000@taux01.UUCP> taux01!cyosta@nsc.UUCP ( Yossie Silverman ) writes:
>2) Printers produce a buzzing with varying frequency depending on the text
>   being printed (this is because of the rate at which the hammers strike the
>   slugs in the print chain).  The same system programmers would also compete
>   to see who could print a job that played specific (and known) tunes.
>

A friend of mine told a story of one of these printers he and another
friend destroyed in a most interesting manner. These printers had, it
would seem, a sort of chain that held all of the characters. I guess
they held about three complete sets of the alphabet plus special 
characters. 

These chaps read the chain and created a file in their system that
had all of the characters of one pass in it. They gave the command to
print the file. Upon doing so the printer starts to spin the chain,
then SMACK! Trying to print all of those characters at once while the
chain was moving, didn't quite work. The fellow said they found 
the print characters in various parts of their office for years 
therafter.



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