[Tfug] Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users topa y rolyalties

[George Cohn]

Joe Blais wrote:

> Didn't you need "copier keys" in those days?  We had counter devices for
> each department that had to be inserted into the Xerox machine to make it
> work.  Monthly we reported the count.

The company I used to work for outsourced all of their printer/copier 
stuff to Xerox a couple of years ago.  Initially, each department had a 
mag stripe card that had to be swiped into the copier before use.  The 
copier would total the pages by card number.

More recently they replaced the copiers with machines with keypads and 
each department was given an account number.  You had to enter the 
account number before the copier would work.

So it appears that the original philosophy of "Where's the click" lives 
on to this day.

This thread has been interesting and brings back memories of some of the 
early computers I played with.  Wonder how many of this group have been 
around since "The dawn of the computer age?"

George Cohn