Historical Question
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Back in the 80s when we had noisy dot matrix printers with continuous paper feed from a stack on the floor... What was that green-striped paper called? Was it "green band?" When I Google it I get all manner of "green" products and political BS. I did find one picture of the paper but the blurb was about the printer not the paper. Anyone remember what it was called? I'm adding a couple of style options to a DataGridView and want to use the name of that paper for an option with alternating row colors. TIA. :)
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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Back in the 80s when we had noisy dot matrix printers with continuous paper feed from a stack on the floor... What was that green-striped paper called? Was it "green band?" When I Google it I get all manner of "green" products and political BS. I did find one picture of the paper but the blurb was about the printer not the paper. Anyone remember what it was called? I'm adding a couple of style options to a DataGridView and want to use the name of that paper for an option with alternating row colors. TIA. :)
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
We always called it "Green Bar" back in my Univac days (80s).
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We always called it "Green Bar" back in my Univac days (80s).
Thank you! I was at least close with "green band." For me it was using a Wang OIS with that giant 4 megabyte hard drive.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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Back in the 80s when we had noisy dot matrix printers with continuous paper feed from a stack on the floor... What was that green-striped paper called? Was it "green band?" When I Google it I get all manner of "green" products and political BS. I did find one picture of the paper but the blurb was about the printer not the paper. Anyone remember what it was called? I'm adding a couple of style options to a DataGridView and want to use the name of that paper for an option with alternating row colors. TIA. :)
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
Green bar: Continuous stationery - Wikipedia[^].
Mircea
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Green bar: Continuous stationery - Wikipedia[^].
Mircea
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Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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Back in the 80s when we had noisy dot matrix printers with continuous paper feed from a stack on the floor... What was that green-striped paper called? Was it "green band?" When I Google it I get all manner of "green" products and political BS. I did find one picture of the paper but the blurb was about the printer not the paper. Anyone remember what it was called? I'm adding a couple of style options to a DataGridView and want to use the name of that paper for an option with alternating row colors. TIA. :)
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
I never thought of green as a more common color. I think of it as either light blue or light gray. Maybe that varied from country to country / paper manufacturer to paper manufacturer. So 'green bar' doesn't ring a bell at all. We used to call it 'zebra paper'.
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I never thought of green as a more common color. I think of it as either light blue or light gray. Maybe that varied from country to country / paper manufacturer to paper manufacturer. So 'green bar' doesn't ring a bell at all. We used to call it 'zebra paper'.
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Back in the 80s when we had noisy dot matrix printers with continuous paper feed from a stack on the floor... What was that green-striped paper called? Was it "green band?" When I Google it I get all manner of "green" products and political BS. I did find one picture of the paper but the blurb was about the printer not the paper. Anyone remember what it was called? I'm adding a couple of style options to a DataGridView and want to use the name of that paper for an option with alternating row colors. TIA. :)
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
O/T a bit, but if you can still find those printers at a thrift store or something, pick them up and flip them. They are worth a fortune because of carbon copy stationary that is still used by small businesses.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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:-) But no, the zebra paper I have used has almost without exception been of colors different from green. I have seen the green variant as well, and know positively that I can distinguish it from the light blue or gray variant. When I think of it: It could be that the zebra stripes tend to be green in banking printouts (but not as much in other trades, e.g. software development). That makes sense in the US; not as much in other countries. I must admit that I was a grown man before I realized the strong symbol value of the color green in US culture. In most other cultures, it has no similar foundation.
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:-) But no, the zebra paper I have used has almost without exception been of colors different from green. I have seen the green variant as well, and know positively that I can distinguish it from the light blue or gray variant. When I think of it: It could be that the zebra stripes tend to be green in banking printouts (but not as much in other trades, e.g. software development). That makes sense in the US; not as much in other countries. I must admit that I was a grown man before I realized the strong symbol value of the color green in US culture. In most other cultures, it has no similar foundation.
At that time I worked in a variety of industries in the UK, all used green bar. At one job (which was financial) we had a box of continuous green-bar line printer paper (printout of credit card transactions - we supported a credit card processor) sitting on the windowsill. One hot summer day someone decided to open the window; when we came back from lunch the top few sheets had blown out of the window, followed by the entire rest of the box. A ribbon of paper, maybe 200 feet long, was billowing up the street into the busy town centre. All covered in tens of thousands of confidential credit card data. Oh, how we laughed... :doh: A few years later, during the infamous "not a hurricane" of 1987, a similar thing happened in our office (by then I was working for a software vendor). A few windows blew out and all the piles of printed COBOL / ADS-Online code ended up everywhere, in massive tangles. Just when we thought we'd gathered it all together, someone spotted a bit sticking out through the ceiling tiles. We investigated and most of the roofspace above the false ceiling was completely full with tangled up line-printer paper. (We waited a week before turning on some of the rain-soaked VDUs, and all of them were fine.)
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O/T a bit, but if you can still find those printers at a thrift store or something, pick them up and flip them. They are worth a fortune because of carbon copy stationary that is still used by small businesses.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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I never thought of green as a more common color. I think of it as either light blue or light gray. Maybe that varied from country to country / paper manufacturer to paper manufacturer. So 'green bar' doesn't ring a bell at all. We used to call it 'zebra paper'.
Once I got my memory jogged I remembered it clearly. Where I was using it way back when (Houston, TX) it was green bar. But it's likely that it had other names, too.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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Back in the 80s when we had noisy dot matrix printers with continuous paper feed from a stack on the floor... What was that green-striped paper called? Was it "green band?" When I Google it I get all manner of "green" products and political BS. I did find one picture of the paper but the blurb was about the printer not the paper. Anyone remember what it was called? I'm adding a couple of style options to a DataGridView and want to use the name of that paper for an option with alternating row colors. TIA. :)
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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Way behind the curve I know. Here in Sweden we called it pyjamas paper, it mostly had blue stripes...
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
