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Re:Hammer time: fixing the printer on a vintage IBM 1401 mai... by RickJWagner on Monday December 10, 2018 @10:21PM (#18653130)
The top picture includes the printer, inside is a nice stack of green-bar paper.

The first part of my career was spent studying green-bar. It's how programs were read, understood, and core-dump-repaired if necessary.

I guess we're lucky things got better online. Saving a lot of trees!

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Re:Hammer time: fixing the printer on a vintage IBM 1401 mai... by kens on Monday December 10, 2018 @11:01PM (#18653247)
The funny thing is that while most of the IBM 1401 stuff (such as punch cards) is long obsolete, green-bar paper is still a thing - we simply buy boxes at Office Depot.
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