[GreenKeys] Ticker-tape first unveiled 1867

[Dave Horsfall]

[ The mighty 1403 train printer ]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2020, Joe Duszyński wrote:

> Oh yea "Been there done that! LOL!" I blew thru a whole box accidentally 
> and ended up flipping it around to reuse it. Wasn't it like 1200 or 1400 
> LPM?? It was ridiculously fast back in its day.

Something like that, yeah; it was d*mned fast.  And never, ever, put your 
coffee cup on the lid (I used to work the night shift on ye olde 360/50).

> Some of the stuff now is even crazier they can shoot thru 6 reams double 
> sided in the time it takes to walk over to the coffee maker to refill 
> your cup!

They will never replace the duty cycle of the 1403; I've found that I've 
spent more on toner etc than the printer itself!

-- Dave