Random Ruminations
When Plotters Go Bad
Posted Mon Apr 21, 2008 in
Humor
The law of unintended side effects is alive and well. On Friday, the technician issued an email that a some large plots would be sent to the annex-office plotter. As I worked through my email this morning, this came into my inbox.
Clearly, no one expected a paper hang to dump plots all over the floor. However, I’ve been around computer equipment and watched the interaction of computer equipment and printing/plotting equipment enough times to know, I mean know that paper-handling is a huge issue.
It will be interesting to see if there is any email response to this. Although I think it’s funny, if it was me I’d be embarrassed.
25 years ago I worked with an IBM 5211 printer (300lpm). One of the print jobs was internal copies of customer statements on 14 7/8×11 paper. We’d run it overnight, and invariably it would jam. Usually I’d walk in the next morning and my favorite accounting clerk would say “Phred’s choking!”
— Linkmeister 28 April 2008, 15:36 #LOL. That’s a great one-liner! I especially love the spelling “Phred.”
Thanks for sharing that story.
— ruminator 29 April 2008, 05:32 #