-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-07-16 21:23, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 07/16/2015 01:35 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
One day he showed me the computer room of his work place (a petroleum refinery). The line printer was awesome: a line at a time, almost instantly.
Yes, I remember those printers. It wasn't just that they could print a line at a time. heck, laser printers print a page at a time.
Yes, but they were not yet invented! :-)
It was the speed. Print a large file and the paper few out into the air.
Yep. And my father said that the one they had that time was slower than the previous one.
That wasn't a printer it was a mortar. You didn't want to be standing there looking in when it started. Paper can cut; at that speed it would cut seriously!
I guess that was the previous model he was talking about ;-)
"Off with his head!" (Obligatory Lewis Carroll Quote)
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