Re: OT: unhappy printer

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:43:17 +0100, Phil Launchbury
<phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dropped the following oil-slick:

In article <MPG.1f6fdf174f430e8989691@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mups wrote:
In article <ssugt3xgsb.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
tnewsSPAMMENOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Mark wrote:

there were also some (industrial) printers that had multiple sets of
letters on an endless steel band and would fire several letters at the
paper simultaneously. Plenty racket, they made.

Line printers, they still exist.

At Galileo we had a selection of these - they had to be kept in a small
room of their own with extra sound-dampening as they were so loud.

Incredibly fast though.

Not fast enough for the idiot bank manager who wanted a printout of
ALL mortgages that were in the red. Now was that two or three van
loads that turned up in his office?
--
gomez
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