🚀 go-pugleaf

Robert Billing <uncl...@tnglwood.demon.co.uk> writes:
 
>In article <6bqb8f$8tl$1...@news1.rmi.net> an...@rmi.net "Andy Rabagliati" writes:
>
>> And heaven forbid that your paper tape somehow got into the
>> dashpot. It could jam the plunger so tightly you needed to
>> take the thing apart.
>
> Also, heaven forbid that someone moved an ASR33 without removing the
>chad box. A full chad box emptied into all that oily gearing is an
>awful site...
 
They must have tipped the 33 on its side otherwise it would be
difficult to get the chad in the mechanism.  What more likely
was to happen when moving one is the chad box would fall on
the floor and spill.  Back when I was in college (many years ago :-)
on strange moonlit nights I and friends would go around to all
the TTY's, keypunches, duplicators and card punches on the computers
aand collect all the chad in an empty TTY or Line Printer paper
box and then carry it to a nearby bridge and throw it off.
The effect was quite interesting, an opaque cloud would form and
persist for quite some time.  A full moon made the effect
especially good :-)  And, of course, chad was always welcomed at
weddings ;-)
Chris