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AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> writes:
> My IT department wrote a routine to print a block of text onto the end
> of each print so that they could hear when each batch print had ended
> and so they could separate the prints as they came out instead of
> searching through a whole stack of fan fold to separate the different
> prints. It sounded like descending tones.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#90 1956 -- circuit reliability book

standard IBM 1403 was separator header ... mostly blank page with
printing across the perferation (so from side of stack of paper, could
see "darker" marking separating printout ... also easy to see fanning
paper) followed by header page identifying owner of the printout. full
box of printer output could have printout for several dozen different
people when go to separate (N1 had lots of sound deadening, made the
cover so heavy that it had mechanical lift)

later for 6670 (computer driver for effectively copier 3) printers out
in departmental areas. put colored paper in the 6670 alternate paper
drawer. normal printout was on standard (white) paper ... "header" page
(with user identification) was on colored paper from alternate paper
drawer.

we added some extra special for the 6670 header page ... had lots of
extra room ... so selected random entry from some quotation/saying
files. One file had all the IBMJARGON definitions ... another file had
collection of random quotations.

During one corporate audit ... which included checking offices and
departmental areas offshift for classified information left unsecured
...  including 6670 printout in department areas ... they found output
that had the following on a separator/header page

[Business Maxims:] Signs, real and imagined, which belong on the walls of the nation's offices:
1) Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing; It Wastes Your Time and It Annoys the Pig.
2) Sometimes the Crowd IS Right.
3) Auditors Are the People Who Go in After the War Is Lost and Bayonet the Wounded.
4) To Err Is Human -- To Forgive Is Not Company Policy.

... snip ...

The auditors then were complaining that we were ridiculing them.
Contributing factor was that we had a lot of demo programs (frequently
games by any other name) on the systems ... and the auditors were
demanding that all games had to be removed. 3270 logon screens at the
time had some statement about "for business purposes only" ... we
managed to get executive authorization that said "for management
approved use only" (with the demo program use as management approved).

some past "management approved use" posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#89 Make the mainframe work environment fun and intuitive
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#85 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#62 Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#95 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#6 Some fun with IBM acronyms and jargon (was Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#67 IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#66 Is the IBM Official Alumni Group becoming a ghost town? Why?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#67 What is the most epic computer glitch you have ever seen?

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