I'm old enough to know that greenbar paper is 120 columns. There's also 144,
still on impact printers. The compressed dump format for the 3800 squeezes in
considerably more.
Except when there is a legal requirement for carbon paper or NCR copies,
doesn't everybody use plain paper with a forms overlay these days?
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Subject: Do they still make greenbar paper these days?
I had occasion a few minutes ago to note to myself, in a non-computer
context, that twice 66 is 132. "How" (an imaginary grandchild asked in my
head) "did you know that so fast?" The answer, of course, is that if a
computer programmer is old enough he knows 132 characters is the usual width
of the old greenbar paper, and 66 is half of that.
But it led me to wonder. Punch cards are now an expensive antique. Do they
even make greenbar paper any more? Does anyone know? Just curious.
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Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
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