[ale] Changing default font for lp command
James P. Kinney III
jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Mar 23 18:13:32 EDT 2007
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 17:42 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
> >
> I remember those. Goes back to the 3 series The IIIsi in particular had
> cartridges, like the old Atari game carts, that plugged into the lower
> right corner. State Farm was a heavy user of these guys, but had a
> tremendous theft problem. Their offices would get broken into during the
> night and all 10 units would be stolen. Then came along their Chief of
> Security who came up with the idea of bolting them to the table using a
> 1" dia bolt. They drilled 2 holes in the bottom of these and secured
> them. This was done in 6 of their offices. They couldn't figure out why
> they didn't work. I was working for HP Customer Service at the time and
> I was the one that visited all of these printers. We used to call these
> printers "Drip Pan Logic", because the main logic board was in a
> compartment at the bottom that basically looked like a drip pan. Inside
> the plastic cover or bottom was a 1/4" metal chassis cover. When they
> had drilled the hole, they had done it without removing all of this and
> had just laid the printer upside down. Two printers they had drilled
> right through the logic board, they rest fried when the metal filings
> fell into the power supply. Doing the math that was 60 printers fried at
> I think it was about $5K apiece back then. I never saw that Security
> Chief after that, I really don't know why?????????? Oh well sorry for
> going way off subject.
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