many years ago
I worked at a place that had one of those fancy IBM guillotine forms cutters that used a special (of course it was special) card to be programmed for the length of form & etc. You lined up the forms, started it up and it sliced them apart at the perfs. perfect for multiple part forms that got burst in sets. I heard some time after i left that place that someone had spilt a Coke into it and killed the machine. I can't imagine (well, I can; it was IBM) how much that honker cost.
Back in those days the consoles on the 360s were IBM Selectric typewriters and even the console printer on our 7080 was a prior generation electric typewriter. Loved that 7080 as you could program directly into memory from the console.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
