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From: wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil (Will Martin)
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Subject: Re: AT&T Sourcecode: Poison!
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Date: 2 Mar 90 20:31:11 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 142, Message 8 of 9

>I worked for Western Electric once upon a time. And I have some neat
>stories about 11 character per inch typewriters.....the standards are
>10 and 12.  They sure knew how to live in a protected environment.

That sure rings a bell! We had some UNIX training here by contract
with Western Electric back many years ago. We still have the special
WE-unique *4-ring* binders and *4-hole-punched* paper they provided to
us as part of the training materials. Designed specifically to be
incompatible with ordinary 3-hole-punched standard paper and 3-ring
binders, these look ordinary from the outside, but are sure different
inside! The instructor mumbled something about it being a way to
prevent employees from stealing supplies to use at home or give to
their kids at school. Somehow I think the extra costs of having
special products designed and produced for WE would far exceed the
amount lost through employee petty theft if they used ordinary
commercial products... :-)

Please post your 11-cpi-typewriter tales!


Regards, Will