1403? Sorry, I didn't use printers that had REAL carriage control tapes, I'm just a youngster. If it couldn't spill your coffee by raising the lid automatically when it ran out of paper, it was b4 my time.
I'm sorry to have gotten us so off topic, but it has been fun. Tom P. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EOS CF Cards and deletion Tom Pfeiffer wrote: >So you were one of those guys who came in, completely disassembled a >reader/punch all over the computer room floor, and then went to the >lunchroom to read the novel in your back pocket and drink coffee until two >other guys showed up to help you put it back together? > >:) > >You SE's sure had it easy! > >Tom P. > >PS - You also got paid overtime? Sheesh, THAT would have been nice. > > > Nope! We didn't read novels, those were technical manuals. Mickey Spillane and Arthur C. Clark wrote some interesting tech stuff..... The SEs were the highly paid guys. Overtime was the only way they could get us CEs to roll out of bed. I had a Customer once that started large printing jobs at 2100...... Before the electric stepper motors, paper was advanced hydraulically. (1403 printers vs 3211 printers) At various times we either replaced or rebuilt the hydraulic units. This Customer had a broken hydraulic unit during a rebuild period. The Shift Supervisor kept telling me he had to have one of the 1403s back by 2100. At 2100 I had all the parts neatly laid out on the floor on the old blue rags and the needed parts on order. I gave him his printer back. He said, "But its not fixed!" I said, "But it's 2100!" He stopped bugging us and we got along really well after that. It was a more relaxed, and fun, work environment waaaaay back then. Bob * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
