OT: Fun with printer displays

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, Laura Brody wrote:
>Quoting "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>:
>
>> But printers actually have slots that accept paper.
>> Thats why the coin & bbq sauce ones are so great.
>> Out of cheese? heh love it.
>>
>> The next step is to make interactive processes using multifunctions that can
>> scan.
>> Demand a pretty drawing, scan it, remark upon it, "It's not very pretty but
>> , sniffffff ahhh, you get points for the perfume"...
>>
>> Wouldn't fit on the 12 character displays but I'd probably have used some
>> variant of "REPLACE  SQUIRREL"
>>
>
>   How about
>
>"Out of service - hamster on break"
>"service needed -- oil hamster wheel"
>"spelling error detected on line 23"
>"resume detected, alerting boss"
>"Did you just fart?"
>"Feed me, Seymour!"
>"Shredding document"
>"I'm bored, please insert porn"?

There's a side to Laura I would never have guessed :-).

Back in the days of punch cards and IBM 360s, I saw a parody of the
ubiquitous green fold-out cards of 360 opcodes with thing like:

ROC Read Operator Character
POP Punch Operator
MCD Mangle Card in Card Reador
BMT Break Mag Tape

Bill
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