Javier Perez wrote:
As for the printer, All I know is what I heard. I'm
pretty sure it was an IBM printer of the kind you
would have found attached to a mainframe. It was
supposed to be some sort of super high speed printer
that could print as fast as it could be fed or
something like that. Not sure but I think it was a dot
matrix. Of course maybe I simply concluded that myself
since lasers weren't very fast then. I heard the story
around 1995 and I think it was about an old printer
back then. The guy told me the story as an anecdote.
I'm not sure if he saw it himself or had just heard of
it. Now I'm getting curious again!
Of course I guess the thing could have been defective
and someone said, perhaps jokingly "Why the critter's
so fast it burns the paper!" and someone else ran with
it!
Javier
My final comments on printers setting fire to paper.
As I said many times this, under normal operation, cannot happen without
a serious malfunction.
For 28 years I maintained printers from the slow 1403 to the 1403N1 and
3211 and 3800 and 3835 and many in between attached to mainframes from
2030 to 9020 before changing to midrange AIX systems. I have never seen
or heard of a printer being so fast it sets the paper on fire. If it
had happened there would have been an emergency safety EC, Engineering
Change to correct the cause.
Consider the following:
#1 What good would the printed output be if it was burned to ash?
#2 Again, the liability to the manufaxtuerer of such a printer......
BTW, with the 3800 laser printer the paper never stopped moving. With
impact printers, the 1403 and 3211, etc, the paper stopped 6 or 8 times
per inch so they were not as fast as the non impact 3800.....
I've said all I will say on IBM fire printers.
Now, where did I put my 20D?
Bob
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