15 Dec
2014
15 Dec
'14
4:15 p.m.
The hammers pushed from the back of the paper, push in it into a sheet
ribbon and then into the rotating type drum.
On Dec 15, 2014 6:43 PM, "Dave G4UGM" <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
Where I worked the un-even text was referred to as
"Dancing Text" .....
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Doug
Ingraham
Sent: 15 December 2014 21:08
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Weekly Classic Computer Trivia Question (20141215)
OK, so somewhat weekly questions.
Back in the days of high speed line printers there was a characteristic
of drum
style printers that made the output print style
quite distinct. What
was this
characteristic?
I don't miss the noise of those devices and it seemed like no matter how
careful you were when changing the ribbon you would smudge your hands.
Doug Ingraham