Re: Old word processors

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From: hanc...
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:30

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On Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 5:17:48 PM UTC-4, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> The standard in one mainframe shop in which I worked was to overprint
> heading and total lines on our line printer.  This was less effective
> when the ribbon was fresh, but since we were trying to wring every bit
> of ink out of a ribbon it usually looked pretty good.  Whether it was
> good enough to slow our printer down to 1/3 speed while doing it was
> a matter for discussion.  (Yes, one-third speed: our printer used an
> oscillating typebar, and you had to send it a blank line image between
> the two copies to be overprinted.  If the bar wasn't going the same
> direction when printing the two copies, the result would look smudged.)

While multi-printing did look good and set off headings and totals,
I never saw in use.  Many computer centers I was at discouraged 
multi-line strikes on the impact printer.

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