the non-existence of printer collectors

[Richard]

In article <479B90DA.7831.3381EF7A at cclist.sydex.com>,
    "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>  writes:

> I briefly had a Diablo dot-matrix printer--the carriage servo could 
> crush your hand if you were stupid enough to put it in the wrong 
> spot.

I knew a guy that wrote an "alarm" program.  He would be there late
at night working on the LA-36.  When he felt sleepy, he would run his
alarm program.  It would move the carraige on the LA-36 to column 132
and wait.  At the requested time it would beep several times.  If
you didn't press return, it would print a carraige return, bringing
the print head to the left hand margin again.  He would sleep with his
hand in the printing area and if the beep didn't wake him up, the
print head slamming into his hand would do it :-).

(I am *not* making this up!)
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