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Rise of the Machines hair-raiser: The day IBM's Dot Matrix turned

Mike Henderson

Re: Let's face it, who amongst us hasn't lost a tie to the...

Back in the day - 1989 IIRC - I visited the place here the London Metropolitan Police printed their parking and traffic tickets. The printer was a roll-fed Xerographic behemoth that produced about a hundred tickets per minute, printed both sides and sliced into A4 sheets. That was amazingly rapid for those days.

The feed paper was a roll about 600mm in diameter and 270mm wide, weighing lotsa kg, and moved around on special hand carts.

The whole area was surrounded by a rope barrier, with big signs on each side of the entrance

"Neck ties are not permitted in this area"

I imagine the Met must have had at least one nasty incident to generate such a flagrant breach of Standards Of Attire

;-)

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