Re: tlug: Mew on (X)Emacs the way to go?

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:

> Hey, I worked on one of those. It may have been old, but it could
> waste trees at a blinding rate. There wasn't an IC in the whole

You're joking, right?  Revolving drum printers are the slowest line
printers around.  Even the slowest chain printer I've ever used was
faster.  The one we had was a Data Products unit, as were the antique
chain printers.  What make were the ones you used?  Which navy data center
did you work in?

> was that it was not particularly friendly on the ear drums. I left the

Yeah, they're loud :-)

> Navy in '86, and I would not be surprised if its still there :)

Unless they sold it to SAIC :-)

Cheers,

Jonathan

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