05-19-17 11:43 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Off topic
Howdy! Mark,

 ml> {at}MSGID: 

 ml>  On 2017 May 18 09:02:00, you wrote to joe mackey:

 EV> The building where I worked at in the mid-1960's had a room full of
 EV> IBM computer gear and I could see the paper being printed jumping up
 EV> at about 2 lines per second and it amazed me how quick the print head
 EV> must be moving.

 EV> I talked to the operator and He let me see the Printer, it had a bar
 EV> that a chain of the type characters spun around and when the correct
 EV> character was in the right position a solinoid activated a hammer to
 EV> hit it to print it on the paper. That bar had about 130 hammers spaced
 EV> across it and when a line was printed it sounded like a machine gun
 EV> for a brief moment and the the paper would jump up for the next line
 EV> to get printed.

 ml> those are called "line printers" because they print each
line in one
 ml> blow instead of having a head that travels back and forth printing each
 ml> character one at the time... yes, they are very noisy and they can be

Thanks, I couldn't think of the devices proper name when I was typing my
note to Joe.

 ml> very fast... my father tells a story about being in the pentagon at one
 ml> time and seeing one of their printer rooms... the setup was a box of
 ml> greenbar paper under the printer and on the other side of the room was
 ml> another box to catch the paper in... across the ceiling were some
 ml> hangers just in case... the printers were so fast that the paper came
 ml> out the top of the printer and literally flew across the room and into
 ml> the catch box... i have no idea of the distance involved, though...
 ml> needless to say, you had to wear ear protection and certainly be
 ml> careful not to disturb the paper in flight... i would also be extremely
 ml> watchful of papercuts with the paper moving like that so long sleeves
 ml> and probably also gloves ;)

The Line Printer I saw working had a box of greenbar paper under it and
a box that had been emptied of its greenbar paper placed on the floor
about 6 inches behind the Line Printer to catch the new job.

 ml> Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer
 ml> doin' it wrong...

Last week I had to find out what IDS/IPS meant.
I found an Wikipedia article about Intrusion Detection System. Thanks.

 ml> ... Never hold a dustbuster and a cat at the same time.
WOW! I'd say not to too.

You sent a message to me in the FIDO GAZETTE echo that Janis, The Moderator,
told Me was Off Topic there, so I'll answer it here.

Genesis 5:4-5 says that after Adam and Eve had their Third Son, They had
more Sons and Daughters before Adam died.

Hey Joe!, I know this part of my message to Mark is probably Off Topic
in this echo too!    Sorry.

BTW Joe, how is the disk reading process working out for You?
And have You seen a Line Printer?

Those last two lines are On Topic here, aren't they?


... A BBS user and his leisure time are soon parted.
--- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49
--- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux