On 11/27/14 10:46 PM, Mykle Hansen wrote: > Yes! Totally. I guess I'm really dating myself here, but I think even when > I used one of these in college it was starting to be considered obsolete. > I sure loved the sound they made. I think if I came across one today > I would be sorely tempted to pry out the type chain and wear it as > some kind of hipster jewelry: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1403#mediaviewer/File:IBM_1403_printer_chain.jpg
We had a printer that must've been like that attached to the first computer I ever got to play with: a DEC PDP-10. I was more interested in the blinkenlights (there was a 36-bit register readout on the operator console that the geek kids knew how to control, and you could see it through the window into the machine room, so we used to write various Larsen scanners for it). I never even thought about how the printer managed to crank out pages so fast, but a chain makes sense. It also makes the "ERROR: Printer on fire" (!) error message make sense! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire -- Mersenne Law LLP · www.mersenne.com · +1-503-679-1671 - Small Business, Startup and Intellectual Property Law - 9600 S.W. Oak Street · Suite 500 · Tigard, Oregon 97223
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