Re: Why so many 6s and 8s in the 70s?

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From: Rich Alderson
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:41

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Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> writes:

> hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes:

>> As Campbell-Kelly explains in their book, the beauty of the 
>> IBM 1401 was not in its electronics (not a big deal) but rather
>> the 1403 printer, which gave high quality at a significantly
>> faster rate.  As mentioned, I remain amazed that for _years_,
>> customers tolerated wavy lines of other mainframe line printers,
>> even slow ones.

> Just to defend the slower IBM 1443 common on the 1440, it produced
> pretty high quality output.

I'm going to disagree with this.  I learned to program on a 1401/1402/1403
system as a senior in high school.  When I was exposed to the 1442 attached
to the IBM 1800 at the CAI Laboratory at UTexas the next year, I was appalled
at the print quality.

-- 
Rich Alderson					  ne...@alderson.users.panix.com
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