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From: daveM@cup.portal.com (Dave L Maddox)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 15 Feb 89 07:31:16 GMT
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Re printers tearing their own paper...

A fairly high speed DEC printer from the earlier part of the decade
kept tension on the paper using two sets of tractors - one above the
hammers, and one below.  The one above constantly pulled on the paper, and
the one below allowed the paper to travel at the appropriate rate.  Woe
be to him who released the paper from the bottom tractors!  Half the box
would pass in the blink of an eye...

Now there was a printer just *begging* for the underscore - perforation trick!