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by hefferbub 1562 days ago
I wrote my first production program in COBOL back in 1983 at Hewlett-Packard.

It basically took reports formatted for the multi-carbon “greenbar” paper that normally went to the big dot matrix printers and sent them instead to print on the then-new HP2680a desk size laser printer.

They made me emulate the look of greenbar paper on the white fanfold laser prints because that was what people were used to.

Good times…