AB negative Our exciting story of printer switch boxes prompts some reminiscence from former civil servant Niall Fisher. 'Seven years ago I worked in the civil service, and one day I was asked to go down to the finance office and install a printer switc

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Our exciting story of printer switch boxes prompts some reminiscence from former civil servant Niall Fisher.

'Seven years ago I worked in the civil service, and one day I was asked to go down to the finance office and install a printer switch box between two

computers and a printer. We didn't have any more automatic switch boxes, and the printer was not network-capable, so I had to use a manual 2 port switch.' His instructions to the two users:

Niall: Jason: you are on switch A. When you want to...