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Old 12-26-2002, 04:57 PM   #9
MaggieL
in the Hour of Scampering
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
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Originally posted by wolf
Put me in mind of my college days, it did, when things were so primitive that we had to use stale food stolen from the cafeteria as output devices. Decwriters were scarce in those days ...
Actually, in high school, when the shipment of stock paper was late, we once stole a roll of paper towels from the bathroom and trimmed it on a bandsaw in the woodshop so it would fit on the paper feed for our Teletype terminal.
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