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From: peggy@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Peggy Shambo)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <2882@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 8 Feb 89 02:56:51 GMT
References: <1000@taux01.UUCP> <1742@hp-sdd.hp.com>
Reply-To: peggy@ddsw1.UUCP (Peggy Shambo)
Followup-To: rec.humor
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM, Mundelein, IL
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In article <1742@hp-sdd.hp.com> hinojosa@hp-sdd.hp.com.UUCP (Daniel Hinojosa) writes:
>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.

Gee.. I used to be a computer operator (HISI) and we had a regular print
test program that printed all the characters.. in a stepped version like
this:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890!@#$%^&*()
 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890!@#$%^&*()
) abcdefghikjlmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890!@#$%^&*()

etc


Anyway, we never snapped a print chain on those.  And we did a print test
each shift, and those printers were working 24 hours a day (literally!)

I think the above mentioned print chain was just ready to go anyway.


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