30 Jul
2025
30 Jul
'25
6:02 a.m.
Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
An extant memento of my home TTY 37 is a stack of
fanfold paper that
accommodated artwork by children and grandchildren. About 1/4".remains
for potential great-grandchildren.
Doug
I really miss 11" x 17" greenbar fanfold paper. It was wonderful
for printing out program listings and reviewing code. One could
make notes on the side of the code, flip back and forth between
different files to see how different data structures were used,
and so on. It was great.
That's how I first learned the gawk code (MUCH smaller at the
time). I printed out the whole thing and read through it, making
notes.
Sigh. The good old days.
Arnold
P.S. Some years ago I went through the binders on my bookshelves to
get rid of things. From that I have a stack about 4 feet high of letter
paper printed one-sided on a laser printer, waiting for use by future
grandchildren. Sadly, not one of my kids is married. (These days my
laser printer does duplex; anything I don't need goes into recycling.)
Whatever. We now return you to our regularly scheduled reminiscing.