That is a really weird looking printhead http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/ict.punchcardmachines.1964.102646222.pdf …pic.twitter.com/iFcJWARdLf
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That is a really weird looking printhead http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/ict.punchcardmachines.1964.102646222.pdf …pic.twitter.com/iFcJWARdLf
I think some calculators had similar mechanisms:https://youtu.be/_R0P2Do2b-8?t=199 …
Oh, OK, yeah, I guess you've got to do something like that if you want every character to be available in every column and to print all the columns at the same time!
I’m guessing it predates chain printers? I only shudder thinking of how little character alignment there must’ve been…
Just ran across another such picture, by the way. http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/burroughs.e1400.1966.102646238.pdf … Wish I knew the chain printer history. Began with the IBM 1403 in 1959?pic.twitter.com/5tnxQhLvR2
Yeah, that sounds about right. They have those at the CHM and they’re so much fun to watch. I believe I read up on them a bit in one of those thick IBM history books.
Five years ago I could not care at all. Now? So into it.
Heh
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