13 Jun
2006
13 Jun
'06
10:19 p.m.
>This question is not easy to answer.
>The IBM 1403 printer came in at least 2 versions : a 1000 lpm and a 300
lpm.
However, the
effective speed depended on what was being printed, as the
chains could be different. Typically, a chain had more E's then Y's, more
A's then P's, etc.
Interesting, The chain printers that I worked on all had the exact same
number of different characters. Depending on the number of characters in
the character set that was used on that partticular printer they usually
had 2 or 3 COMPLETE character sets.