What, nobody mentioned line printers. Dot matrix, ha! <a href="http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-512-line-printer.jpg>Heres http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/v

What, nobody mentioned line printers. Dot matrix, ha! <a href="http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-512-line-printer.jpg>Heres http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-512-line-printer.jpg&#... a pix</a> of the Control Data 512. <a href="http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-512-line-printer-open.jpg>Look http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-512-line-printer-open.... at that hardware</a> and imagine the noise it makes. Your ears haven't lived until they've been treated to one of these puppies printing the Gettysberg Address one word per line on greenbar. The noise of the paper roaring out alone makes a glass booth mandatory!