Gerhard, We used to print bills on a 1403 with a special OCR print train and high intensity black ribbon. So they would scan correctly then we collated them and microfilmed them...omg ...I used to have to be to work at 3am for that job...
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Sep 10, 2013, at 12:41 AM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/9/2013 10:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> Merely that it was the first time I saw a computer (it was a PDP-10) >> writing messages and column headings in mixed case. "Thermal" >> is irrelevant; merely an exclamation of recognition of the device. > > That may have been your first exposure to mixed case output, but IBM offered > an SN and TN train for the 1403. I used an IBM type III program named FORMAT, > that provided an escape character (cent sign by default), to produce mixed > case output. It came in very handy for writing memos and documentation. > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, Vermont > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
