13 Feb
2021
13 Feb
'21
4:18 a.m.
I hated those things. They were what we used for regular listings at
BRL and the chemicals made my skin break out. The chemicals also
reacted with the ink in the standard government issue felt tip pens
(which ironically were made by blind people) and caused your notes to
fade quickly (and the pens to stop working).
------ Original Message ------
From: "Dave Horsfall" <dave(a)horsfall.org>
To: "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Sent: 2/12/2021 5:13:22 PM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable (was: The UNIX
Command Language (1976))
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Greg A. Woods wrote:
I don't know if I've ever seen a
Versatec plotter, though perhaps at a trade show.
The LV-11? We had one at Uni of NSW; it spent most of its time printing biorhythm charts
which were all the rage back then.
-- Dave