ATTN PISTON SLAPPERS: Re-send Your Questions, Please

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• 	28-Cars-Later July 21st, 2015 at 2:16 pm
  PC Load Letter? What the f*** does that mean?
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  • 		Nick_515 July 21st, 2015 at 2:24 pm
    	So I googled it and was just about to reply something… and then I saw the scene. Haha the joke was on me! Those high-rise pants, ‘classic’ cut shirts and wide ties…. ugh.
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  • 		psarhjinian July 21st, 2015 at 3:56 pm
    	Rather a bit like like an HCF instruction.
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  • 		Luke42 July 22nd, 2015 at 2:20 pm
    	Do you actually want to know? PC is the “printer control” program in HP printers. PCL is the printer control language. So, “PC LOAD LETTER” is the printer control program asking you to load letter sized paper so that it can finish printing. The roots of this kind of language from computers is archaic. It probably even made sense back when everyone who had anything to do with computers had a passing familiarity with assembly language. Now, it’s just a tradition. “PC LOAD LETTER”: that’s what the F*** it means.
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    • 		28-Cars-Later July 22nd, 2015 at 2:41 pm
      	Thanks for the reply but some time back I looked it up and knew this. Btw I was citing a line of dialog from Office Space: youtube.com/watch?v=5QQdNbvSGok
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      • 		Luke42 July 22nd, 2015 at 3:04 pm
        	Every time I see that movie, what’s left of my inner BOFH wants to just tell Michael Bolton WTF that means. I was the good kind of BOFH, and my clue-by-four usually stayed on the desk. Usually. The movie was slow to grow on me, but it’s one of my favorites now.
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• 	Detroit-Iron July 21st, 2015 at 5:45 pm
  I have worked in IT since before “Office Space” came out but it was just this year that I found out wtf “PC Load Letter” means.
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• 	JimC2 July 21st, 2015 at 7:28 pm
  My much-younger brother, who was probably about ten years old when that movie came out, thought that “PC load letter” was just something made up just for the movie. He probably wouldn’t know the difference between a parity bit and a checksum… kids.
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  • 		Luke42 July 22nd, 2015 at 3:07 pm
    	LOL. He probably can’t even tell the baud rate on his modem from the connect-sounds! In related news, there are fiber trucks in my neighborhood installing a big boy FTTP network. I hope they come to my house, soon. I can’t hear an optical carrier. My, how the IT world has changed since I was a kid in the 1980s and 1990s!
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• 	OneAlpha July 21st, 2015 at 10:16 pm
  But what about Sanjeev’s email?
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• 	Eliyahu July 21st, 2015 at 10:41 pm
  Thank god for wikipedia! But really, what happened? Or, as seems likely, there had to be some way to work this bit in.
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