-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 00:15, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 02/20/07 23:52, Kevin Mark wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:24:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> >>>> On 02/20/07 15:45, Alan Chandler wrote: >>>>> On Tuesday 13 February 2007 16:29, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>>> [snip] >>>>> in about 1982 I was in the market for a line printer so that my team >>>>> could print out their software listings and was pursuaded by the our HP >>>>> account manager to take a look at their new product - the HP Laserjet. >>>>> I was sold on the fact that we could get our printouts in A4 form for >>>>> the first time. >>>> I've *never* understood why developers like laser printers. Green >>>> bar line printers are so much more useful. >>> I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a >>> noise cover otherwise you'd hear ear-splitting, griding noise. X-( >> That's what insulated hoods and data centers are for! ;) >> >> Actually, I'm serious about the utility of big line printers. The >> large print and *wide*, lined paper made it easy to step thru your >> program, making notes, side calculations, etc. Think of them as >> magic whiteboards that you could lay on your desk and didn't need >> thick, stinky, messy markers to write with. >> > You certainly are correct in that the wide paper left sufficient room to > make notes, etc. I'd use the side for comments and corrections and the > back for flow charts and such.
That's exactly right. IMNSHO, the Personal Computer mindset has seriously retarded IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF2+XCS9HxQb37XmcRAmfFAKDfBQkLXoutuGEPPbRhgfXOeyl9KgCfSFDO juyzsUpZkZWx4EPfTW8nmr8= =6hgY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
