chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris) (11/29/89)
You know the perforations, or tractor feeds, from the sides of PC paper that get ripped off and needlessly thrown away ??? Good... I am looking for something useful to do with them.?! Suggestions welcomed... Since it is almost Christmas, I have already decorated my tree with them, and the room it is in too....... Any other ideas ??? E-mail, or post, I may post a compilation if I get enough responses by 1990. Chris Behrens ChrisB@Hubcap.Clemson.Edu
ssk@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Shana S Kaye) (11/29/89)
In article <7224@hubcap.clemson.edu> chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris) writes: >You know the perforations, or tractor feeds, from the sides of PC paper >that get ripped off and needlessly thrown away ??? Good... I am looking >for something useful to do with them.?! Suggestions welcomed... > >Chris Behrens ChrisB@Hubcap.Clemson.Edu You can use it as confetti. For New Years parties. Take the strips, cut them into smaller squares (or don't). Then put them into bowls around the room and when the ball drops, or the clock strikes midnight and the new year begins, everyone can throw the contents of a bowl, or a handful into the air. If you are really creative (ambitious?), you can color the strips before you cut them and have multicolored confetti. If anyone else has some interesting ideas, I would be interested in hearing them as well. Shana Kaye ************************************************************************* * God didn't create the world in six days, * * * he procrastinated for five, * ssk@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu * * and pulled an all nighter. * * *************************************************************************
diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond) (11/30/89)
In article <7224@hubcap.clemson.edu> chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris) writes: >You know the perforations, or tractor feeds, from the sides of PC paper >that get ripped off and needlessly thrown away ??? Can't say much about the strips of paper, but the tractor feeds (the metal gears, etc.) along with ladder-shaped, flexible forms made of metal, have been made into chairs! The shape of the "seat" and "back" can be adjusted by pulling (or pushing, I don't remember which) the knob on the right-hand side, and rotating it just like you used to do in order to align the paper with the carriage control ribbon. The price in Japan, around a year ago, was in the $4,000 range. Only 1/30 of the price of the original printer, eh? Norman Diamond, Sony Corp. (diamond%ws.sony.junet@uunet.uu.net seems to work) Should the preceding opinions be caught or | James Bond asked his killed, the sender will disavow all knowledge | ATT rep for a source of their activities or whereabouts. | licence to "kill".
bung@ics.uci.edu (Bill Ung) (12/01/89)
In article <7224@hubcap.clemson.edu> chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris) writes: >You know the perforations, or tractor feeds, from the sides of PC paper >that get ripped off and needlessly thrown away ??? Good... I am looking >for something useful to do with them.?! Suggestions welcomed... Since >it is almost Christmas, I have already decorated my tree with them, and >the room it is in too....... Any other ideas ??? E-mail, or post, >I may post a compilation if I get enough responses by 1990. > >Chris Behrens ChrisB@Hubcap.Clemson.Edu A friend of mine just kept collecting hers, slowly rolling them into a little ball. The ball got bigger with time; we worked at a computer firm so there was plenty of it around. Eventually, it got to be about the size of a bowling ball before she left the company. I dunno if it's still around but it was most amuzing the first time you saw it and I'm sure it killed a lot of dead time in the office! -- Bill Ung********************************************************************* * Bill Ung | I would like, if I may, to take you, * * bung@ics.uci.edu | on a strange journey. * * "Let's do the Time Warp Again!" | -- The Rocky Horror Picture Show * *******************************************************************************
jwi@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) (12/04/89)
Since ticker tape has become obsolete, the perfs are now used in its place at parades in New York. Some persons do not bother separating it from the paper before throwing it out the window. 2000 feet (one box) of double perforations separated by sheets of paper make an impressive display when thrown out the 40th floor window. It makes an even more impressive dent if you don't take it out of the box first. Jim Winer ----------------------------------------------------------------- opinions not necessarily | "And remember, rebooting your brain and do not represent | can be tricky." -- Chris Miller any other sane person | especially not employer. |
GREENJ@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (12/05/89)
I used to take the stuff and roll it into spools. These spools grew to f
disks of various sizes. They were useful for playing "Tower of Hanoi".
ones could be used as Frisbees(TM). On impact, the large disks would exp
creating a mess. (I never actually made one explode, but it might be
possible.)
John Greenwald
greenj@yalevm.bitnet
I speak for myself and no other.isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( ISR group account) (12/07/89)
Re the printout 'perfs', just take them and sepaerate them into individual 'perfs' (ie, 11" peices), then take about 8 of them crisscrossing in the middle to form an asterisk-shaped thing. Now take this thingie and hang it from peice of string from the drop-ceiling in your office. Now make about fifty of'em with the string length varying from 6" to 18" and hang 'em all over the office ceiling. This is especialy good if you have to answer dumb stupid questions interrupting your real work, beacuse when your boss asks "what are those things" you can tell him that each peice of paper represents a stupid user question that he should hire a work-study-warm-body-or-two to answer instead of you. -- Mike Schechter, Institute for Sensory Research, Syracuse Univ. InterNet: isr@rodan.syr.edu msschech@rodan.syr.edu Bitnet: SENSORY@SUNRISE
david@indetech.com (David Kuder) (12/09/89)
In article <7224@hubcap.clemson.edu> chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris) writes: >You know the perforations, or tractor feeds, from the sides of PC paper >that get ripped off and needlessly thrown away ??? Good... I am looking >for something useful to do with them.?! Suggestions welcomed... Since >it is almost Christmas, I have already decorated my tree with them, and >the room it is in too....... Any other ideas ??? Take one strip by the end. Take the strip from the other side of the printout and put the end at right angles to the first end. O.K. ASCII picture time: +---+------------------------------------- | 0 | O O O O O O O O O O O O +---+------------------------------------- | O | | | Take the horiz strip which is under the vert strip and fold it over the vert strip so that the perf hole marked 0 is three deep. Repeat with the vert strip folding. Repeat the whole process. The perfs get out of sync since the there is some paper in the fold but who cares. The end result is a paper spring thing. Long ones could be used like strung popcorn for tree decoration, short ones like tinsel. -- David A. Kuder Comp.lang.perl, the time is now! 415 438-2003 david@indetech.com {uunet,sun,sharkey,pacbell}!indetech!david