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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by smoyer on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @02:14PM (#16432059)
My recollection of the story is that he would laminate them into "tablets" with rubber cement and then tear off the top sheet(s) to make a payment. I think I have that story bookmarked somewhere.

EDIT: I'm not sure where the "printing" part of this story comes into play but it looks like his tablets do indeed have multiple bills per sheet in addition to being laminated at the top. (https://hackaday.com/2012/08/03/woz-prints-and-spend-his-own...)

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by cwkoss on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @03:00PM (#16432461)
You can buy uncut sheets of bills directly from the US mint. I got a sheet of 12x $1 bills when I visited DC as a child.

See here: https://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/1currencysheets.aspx

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by smoyer on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @03:21PM (#16432616)
Right ... but I suspect his local printer was involved in turning them into a tablet of a given size rather than actually printing the bills.
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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by cwkoss on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:10PM (#16440430)
Yep, he got a print shop to apply rubber cement and perforate the sheets.
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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by saganus on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:53PM (#16433314)
Does anyone know how is that not illegal?

Even if they meet the required standards I thought only the government was allowed to print bills.

Does anyone have any links or references to what Woz is saying?

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by michaelt on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @05:55PM (#16433711)
He's pulling the host's leg; the "high quality print shop" he buys them from is the Bureau of Printing and Engraving [1].

Of course, when you're interviewing a prankster about pranks, you've got to expect that sort of thing :)

[1] http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by saganus on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @07:17PM (#16434158)
Aha!

That makes perfect sense. And of course I fell for it...

Thanks!

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