Punch Cards.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 20:34 +1030, Tim wrote:
> 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...  ;-)

The discussion reminds me of the line printer art from those days:
copies of the Mon Lisa, an Albert Einstein portrait, a pinup, and
others, and IBM 1403 chain printer music
(http://staging.computerhistory.org/exhibits/highlights/).
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs