16th century computer printouts

In a recent thread about people's favorite program editors, a few respondents mentioned punch cards. At least we've advanced somewhat since those bad old days. But I'm still stuck with ancient technology when it comes to getting a printout of my source code. Here's what I have to go through each and every time.
Start with some debugged code:

Import it to CorelDraw, convert the typeface to a nice woodblocky font, add a title header, then reverse everything:

Send the graphic to the laser cutter to engrave a printing plate from wood:

Trim the edges of the woodblock, and get it ready to ink:

Ink the plate:

Lay a blank sheet of paper on the plate, add some newspaper for padding, and use a rolling pin to press the ink into the paper:

Ahh! Finally a printout:

After the ink dries for a couple days, I can three-hole punch it and add it to my archival notebook. Yay!
But now I've gotta go clean up the mess I made. There must be a better way!
-Phil
Start with some debugged code:
Import it to CorelDraw, convert the typeface to a nice woodblocky font, add a title header, then reverse everything:
Send the graphic to the laser cutter to engrave a printing plate from wood:
Trim the edges of the woodblock, and get it ready to ink:
Ink the plate:
Lay a blank sheet of paper on the plate, add some newspaper for padding, and use a rolling pin to press the ink into the paper:
Ahh! Finally a printout:
After the ink dries for a couple days, I can three-hole punch it and add it to my archival notebook. Yay!
But now I've gotta go clean up the mess I made. There must be a better way!
-Phil
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Only you Phil...
OBC
Aren't you supposed be working on PropCam!
Jim
I have a monk in the attic who creates syntax illuminated manuscripts.
I had to deal with punchcards way back in 1980 when I had my first FORTAN class in engineering. This is when you had to punch your cards at night, turn in your deck of cards during class, and wait a full day to get the printout on ye olde green & white IBM fanfold paper. That took a while to debug a program. Noobs weren't allowed to run their decks unsupervised. Someone managed to get the printer into a continuous "paper advance" loop that shot a parabolic arc of paper across the room that sent people ducking & covering while trying to find the off switch. A thousand sheets wasted in no time flat.
If you haven't read the sci-fi novel "A Canticle for Liebowitz", I highly recommend it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
Yee must performe thy tasks under full moone and candel lyghte.
(And add some Gregorian chants in the background while you're at it.)
I second that! Great book! I was actually just thinking about that story on my way home from work while driving on the interstate...
"...and there was iron within the rocks for anyone willing to work hard to get it out..."
or something like that...
BTW very cool! You should put it on Hack-A-Day
@mindrobotots
My monk appears to have had a breakdown - he has been transcribing the Bible and started shouting something about "There is an R. There is an R. It says 'celebrate'! "
For inftance:
pft.start(9600)
pft.str(string("Hello, world!"))
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/howto.html
I think if you get rid of the GOTO, It well work much faster......LOL!!!!
I'm a fan of Baroque music, and that one is really cool!
Put some Gothic fonts inside, and it looks even formal.
Plus, that one is closely reminiscent to... Bach's printing of music. Probably he secretly had a computer brought from a person from the future. Maybe his storeroom weren't just lutes and coffee makers - he composes software to his students as well!
LOL!!! Yes, actually, I'm working on a version of the autodoc program that creates plates just for impression of the gold leaf into selected parts of the sidebar illuminations. It outputs GLML (gold leaf markup language, ISO #MCDXLII).
-Phil
Ah, the good old days. Punched cards. Fortran, APL terminals, and the jokers who sent paper wasters if they new what terminal you were on.
"It's in. It's very in!"
"Well, ... if it's in..."
Another Stan Freburg fan, I see. I guess that means every object has to have a ftart method.
-Phil
-Tommy
Be careful jumping to many centuries or you'll put the monk into shock. Give him one of these to bridge the temporal differential by 150 years.
http://steampunkworkshop.com/telegraph.shtml