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Article #621051Re: Why so many 6s and 8s in the 70s?
From: Peter Flass
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:36
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:36
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Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote: > 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. > I'm not sorprised, since the 1442 was a card reader/punch ;-) -- Pete
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