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From: curtc@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curtis Charles)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Keywords: Dirty Tricks
Message-ID: <6760@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 89 17:49:58 GMT
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Reply-To: curtc@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curtis Charles)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
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A dirty trick I've heard ;-) can be done on your average line printer
is to tear the paper, or rather have the printer tear its own paper. 
This works on printers where the tractors are past the hammers. 
Anyway, your print job advances the paper 10 lines or so, then prints
underscores (or minuses) across the paper; all 132 columns.  Overprint
them several times to create a perforation.  Then formfeed.  The weak
perforation rips, leaving half the paper in the printer and half nicely
folded in the output basket.

Most line printers today have a set of tractors below or at the
hammers; darn, ya just can't have any fun anymore!

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