[GreenKeys] 12,000 wpm in 1960

[Jim Haynes]

There was a high speed printer at Livermore Lab but I think it used a
different principle, something like the wet fax paper of the period.
Someone from Livermore talked about it at a lecture at the Computer 
History Museum.  Something was said about a machine that folded the paper
as it came out of the printer, and if that machine failed you got a room
full of paper very quickly.

There used to be a joke about the nuclear labs and their then-super
computers.  The Los Alamos job was said to read one card in the morning,
compute for 24 hours, and then print one line of output.  The Livermore
job was said to read one card in the morning, compute for 24 hours, and
then print for the next week.


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