Does anyone remember "computer paper"? My dad used to bring reams of the scrap home from work for us little kids to scribble on. It had tear-off sides with periodic holes in and I genuinely can't even imagine why.
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The holes were where leprechauns pierced the paper with their little hole punches. Back in 1925, Philbert Q. Winganob realized that it would be cheaper to make confetti that way instead of the old way that was done with mirrors.
Used stuff came home for the kids to draw on the back of.
Cheaper than your modern inkjet too. Not sold as ink consumption devices.
I miss greenbar...
And, yes.
Quite a few programming languages that had progressed from original punchcard needed special rulers made from bakelite with character locations etched on. We would put the ruler over the index point and the lined paper helped ensure you hadn't got it all skew-whiff
Also shoved punch cards into a sorter before shipping to the banks.
Night job in college.
But I'm old
The high pitch sound of the ribbon.
Also how many times they stopped working and it ate the holes.
I used to deliver the stuff to offices all around the centre of London. It was a good daily work out lifting those heavy boxes
And the perforated sides were so I could sit quietly for an hour tearing them into regular paper while my parents had a moment of peace.
https://www.formax.com/pdf/FD590_Op_Manual-web.pdf
We called it printer paper though
BTW, do you know about origin of 80 symbols-per-line limit in some computer (even modern) formats?