[GreenKeys] 12,000 wpm in 1960

[skip at osbornville.com]

When I was in the Air Force (’68 -72) at the Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale,Ca there was a main frame printer that would print out so fast that you couldn’t read it as it printed.
   
Skip 
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> On Aug 8, 2022, at 2:31 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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