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<3 my experience https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35689516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35689516
by ncr100 4y ago
<3 my experience https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35689516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35689516
- tyingq 4y agoYou mentioned the fast feed of blank regions. We would sometimes get a job with form feeds ready for when an operator like you was in the back. When they walked behind the printer, a sufficient amount of form feeds would shoot out the paper fast enough to hit them. Not fast enough to hurt anyone, but it would startle you.
- ncr100 4y agoYES - these machines have personality!! Sometimes there are error-runs, where whatever data analysis tool would be misconfigured, or would run on a schedule regardless of there being worthwhile data, and piles of the stuff would chug out. We had TWO machines, opposite each other, in a chilled room with a raised-tile floor. Very 1960's / 70's chic environment to work in, to my mind. Noisy, lots of "machines that go PING!"