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Article #619823Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 21:02
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On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 08:03:20 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc wrote: > > On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 2:54:22 PM UTC-7, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > >> I mean back in 1986 to have a 24 needle printer must have been awesome >> and you might have though, how could this can get any better. > > Back then, though, I knew too much. > > I was thinking... why on Earth hasn't IBM come out with a daisywheel > version of the Selectric Composer? (Ideally, one with 60 units per inch > as well as 72, 84, and 96 as options, so it could also use typewriter- > like elements too for the ordinary work.) > > I guess at IBM someone foresaw the laser printer coming soon, and > realized it wouldn't be worth the bother. Laser printing was known. At least HP and Apple had each one printer to sell by 1985. Thus IBM might have seen this coming around the same time. I suppose daisywheel sales went down in 1986 already, as lasers started flooding the market. -- Andreas You know you are a redneck if any of your kids were conceived in a car wash.
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