We still use some tractor-feed paper here. We are down to one machine in-use here, but our A/P department still prints off their reports on "greenbar" paper and uses tractor-feed checks. :-) Up until a bit over a year ago, we still used large-format greenbar paper on a line-feed printer, but when that started having problems printing on one side of the paper, we replaced it with a large format (16x20???) laser printer we are leasing. The folks who had been using that are very pleased...although initially they were worried they wouldn't be getting everything on the same paper size and it would be individual sheets. :-) I solved the last part by getting one of those "industrial" staplers that can staple 50 or 60 sheets at a time. :-)
-----Original Message----- From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Obsolete Tech " Just last Friday I was at a customer's site, and saw an old box of fan-fold sprocket-fed paper they had in a corner. They used it for scrap paper. I had to tear off a sheet and then fold-and-tear the edges, just for old time's sake." I remember, during my data processing newbie days, printing off the monthly reports and spending an hour or so just tearing these off. At 3-4 AM nonetheless. :) Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Obsolete Tech On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]> wrote: > I have done all of thes except I can't remember holding up a lighter at a > concert ... The only reason I own a flip-top pocket lighter is to hold it up at concerts. (For lighting fireworks, I use one of those wands.) > I'm 36-for-40 > Is anybody here 40-for-40? I think I can honestly lay claim to all but the " Seeing Pages and Pages of Phone S*x Ads in the Back of Free City Weeklies", and that's because I grew up in rural NH and didn't have any free city weeklies available. I might have only done some of those things once, but I've done them. Some I still do all the time. Many of our customers and suppliers still use fax constantly. And some of our test equipment uses floppies. Just last Friday I was at a customer's site, and saw an old box of fan-fold sprocket-fed paper they had in a corner. They used it for scrap paper. I had to tear off a sheet and then fold-and-tear the edges, just for old time's sake. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.58/2309 - Release Date: 08/17/09 06:08:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
