screen saver not funny

Graham Campbell gc1111 at optonline.net
Thu Sep 22 00:31:54 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:37 -0400, jludwig wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 September 2005 23:14, Tom Pangborn wrote:
> > I think it's kinda' funny.
> >
> > Visit the tepy: http://tepy-at-houston-lake.blogspot.com/
> The (very) old line from unix for a printer error was something like this;
> 
> "WARNING YOUR PRINTER IS ON FIRE!"
> 
And sometimes it wasn't even funny! Some of the early xerographic
process printers had continuous paper feed. A paper jam could back up
the paper into the fusing oven and actually set it on fire. Needless to
say these printers needed a full time operator!
-- 
Graham Campbell <gc1111 at optonline.net>




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