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In article <44...@bu-cs.BU.EDU> be...@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:
>How 'bout this one.  A number of years ago before the advent of
>the laser printer at BU, we used to have a rather large IBM
>impact printer.  The thing sounded like a large air-conditioner
>when running at full tilt.  Anyway, IBM designed the machine
>to open up automagically when it was out of paper.  It would start
>beeping and the door would open like Jaws.  Now, the feature, I mean

I used to work for one of those direct mail outfits.  They had 14 of these
IBM 1403 printers.  A few times I worked the graveyard shift alone, just me
and those 14 printers.

So there I would be, minding the printers, just me in the building, no one else.
And every once in a while a printer would run out of paper and open its lid.
Until one night when 6 of the 14 printers all ran out of paper at the same time.Scared the s**t out of me.  Six giant gaping maws opening up, and there I am, 
all alone. Yikes.
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