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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:10

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On 2018-03-25, Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote:

> On 25 Mar 2018 10:16:22 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-03-24, Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>>      Why asterisks?  Wouldn't "-" or "_" have worked better?
>>
>> Fuck knows. It was over 40 years ago.
>
>      I thought I might be missing something.
>
>      I do recall a story about overprinting on a mainframe printer --
> it might have been here even -- where the paper disintegrated.

I once heard that the IBM 1403 tied its ribbon advance mechanism
to the form advance mechanism.  Hence the following FORTRAN program:

   10 PRINT(6,1)
    1 FORMAT("+THIS PROGRAM CHEWS UP THE PRINTER RIBBON.")
      GOTO 10

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From: Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
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