I seem to recall that was for the 1403.  The 3211 could have different
chains.

Mind you I've seen the first generation of IBM's laser printers whilst at
Dun & Bradstreet... closed up, it reminded me of the #1 Broadway Local.  It
was intended to replace a whole lot of DataProducts printers (that used
drums for the characters).

-soup

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Henry Schaffer <[email protected]> wrote:

> And, of course, you must remember programming the printout so the line
> printer played music!
>
> --henry
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:17 PM, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The terminfo "database", these days, is some kind of binary...  and, from
> > the source file(s), there is a program to "compile" them into a structure
> > the curses library can just suck in as chunk and then use.
> >
> > I kinda miss the old /etc/termcap ...   yes, I've been around.
> Everything
> > balances out over time...
> >
> > (chuckles)
> >
> > "When I was _your_ age, we didn't have none of these fancy graphics you
> > kids have these days... Naw, if you wanted to see pretty pictures, you
> ran
> > your job to the card punch 'n held 'em up to the light!"
> >
> > And, yeah, I recall the magtapes w/ line printer files which would
> > overprint to make pictures...  (  RECFM=FBA LRECL=133 BLKSIZE=1330 )
> >
> > -soup
> >
>
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