On 06/15/2008 11:04:07 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 19:29 +0930, Tim wrote: > > Boxes of 2000 fan-fold sheets that lasted ages, and because you're > not > > putting sheets into a tiny hopper, you weren't forever adding paper > to > > a > > printer every other day. Likewise with ribbons that lasted for > years. > > Those were the days. I typed my PhD thesis in 'em', formatted it with > 'nroff' and printed it on a Diablo. The figures were hand-drawn using > a > stencil set. > > These young whippersnappers don't know what computing is all about > :-) > Not familiar with 'em', I was stuck on using 'SOS' on an overloaded PDP-10. It might not have been the same 'nroff' but the name was the same. I was at least subsidized to use the Calcomp drum plotter. OTOH, getting that Diablo to print that whole thing out was _painful_ and loud. And required working in the wee hours of the morning as the system was marginally less overloaded then. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
