1990 Era computer room

On 6/23/2015 9:39 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: The only reference I could find that separated them are to google for the printer ribbons. I find a lot of the companies who list ribbons don't purge their databases of even the most ridiculously old products, and they list models. I don't have my printer or manuals at hand, but the printer I referred to that looks like the ones here was about 24" on a side. Mine was effectively a table top unit, but there were ones with a bottom feed, etc. Also a very large one which was full size, 14" and just as high speed might be the one in the photo. It didn't come w/o a full floor cabinet. I acquired both, but sold the larger one to a company doing mailing labels for magazines, and also leased the smaller one to them for a while. Both could turn out 5" post cards at in incredible rate. We had to do a bit of engineering to catch the output properly, as it was over 1000 lpm with just a return address and mailing address. Also I don't recall the Data Products ever scaling as fast by restricting columns. At least our 2230, 2260 and 2290 UC only and 96 character set printers didn't. Got the same speed regardless of the columns on those Data Products printers. They were drum, as were the Data Printers, but apparently the hammer logic vs. the line feed was not coupled as far a speeding up with fewer columns. Thanks jim