[GreenKeys] High Speed Printer

[UEOGUY-H.E.ROBT]

If that's the one I remember, ours was hooked to an IBM 370, and had a 
hydraulic
cylinder to lift the cover to change paper, around the '71-'73 time 
frame, they were
"channel attached" and EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange 
Code),
 may be OT, but they did have at least one GREEN Button!

Just Bob!  ....feeling older than dirt right now....thanks!

Eugene Hertz wrote:

>We use printers like these everyday for our IBM mainframe (dont know the model #). They are called generically, "line printers"  
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: WA5CAB at cs.com [mailto:WA5CAB at cs.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 09:12 PM
>>To: wackyvorlon at gmail.com, GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
>>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] High Speed Printer
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>>Paul, 
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>>I've no idea of the nomenclature, but I'm pretty sure that the printer used 
>>with the IBM 1620 was as you describe (printed a line at a time in one cycle). 
>>Last time I waw one would have been early 1970. 
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>>In a message dated 6/14/2005 9:05:06 PM Central Daylight Time, 
>>wackyvorlon at gmail.com writes: 
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>>>This is a little off-topic, but I hope some here can help me. I 
>>>remember seeing a very old form of high speed printer, and can't seem 
>>>to recall the name for it. The unique part of it was that it used a 
>>>series of 'letter bars', one for each column on the page. On the edge 
>>>of the bars, the letters and characters the machine could print where 
>>>raised. The machine would print one entire line at a time, by setting 
>>>the bars for each column to the appropriate height, drawing them back 
>>>and striking the ribbon. The page would then be advanced to another 
>>>line. The only other place I've seen this method of printing was on 
>>>old adding machines, where it seems rather common. 
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>>>Is anyone familiar with these printers? 
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