Just having a clear-out, and found this old sheet of paper from my university days. I have no idea why I kept it.

The full thing is A3, but this is an excerpt.

I seem to have kept this photocopy, and a few originals which use yellow ink.

They seem to have been printed by the Chisholm Institute of Technology (later Monash University) student union for the use of information technology students like me.

I recall a lot of primitive equipment when I was studying there in 1989-92, especially in that first year before they introduced a lot of upgrades. We used these sheets for COBOL programming, because all the code had to be formatted in a very specific way.

This document describes these sheets thus:

This 11″ x 18″ chart is printed in green ink and provides 150 printing positions (at 10 positions per inch horizontally) for a printer carriage space-setting of 6 lines per inch. This form replaces GX20-1776 which allowed for a printing span of 144 characters. Printer charts requiring 150-character spans (3211 with 18 additional print position feature) may be prepared using this chart. This chart may be reproduced using most standard office copying machines.

Not intending to keep these, but thought I’d scan and post before they go in the recycling.

I don’t look fondly back on using these… but they’re a bit of history.