Re: Old word processors

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From: hanc...
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:45

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On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 12:11:06 PM UTC-4, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> >      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

That won't make you any friends. <g>

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