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The fastest printers from the era prior to laser printers were line printers. I used to work as a field engineer maintaining and repairing these and they could
by teh_klev 3y ago
The fastest printers from the era prior to laser printers were line printers. I used to work as a field engineer maintaining and repairing these and they could be quite intimidating devices. The fastest I worked on could print ~1500 lines per minute at a large NCR site. The first thing you'd do was remove your tie and apply ear plugs before starting work on these beasts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_printer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_printer
- bombcar 3y agoHere's one in action: https://youtu.be/KnPBWru2Ecg?t=417 https://youtu.be/KnPBWru2Ecg?t=417
- throwaway173738 3y agolp0: printer on fire.
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