Punch Cards.

[Tim]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 04:51 -0400, Ed Gurski wrote:
> The card reader jams were common and so was the old drum/chain printers
> --- jamming paper during a printout was common. 

And did you ever have someone dead loop their program sending form-feeds
to a printer in another room, the wrong printer, that nobody saw
churning its way through an entire box of paper?  The really big A3
blue-stripe fan-fold.  Even worse when the paper-output spills out of
the hopper...  ;-)

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