Re: OT: unhappy printer

In article <MPG.1f6fdf174f430e8989691@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mups wrote:
In article <ssugt3xgsb.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
tnewsSPAMMENOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Mark wrote:

there were also some (industrial) printers that had multiple sets of
letters on an endless steel band and would fire several letters at the
paper simultaneously. Plenty racket, they made.

Line printers, they still exist.

At Galileo we had a selection of these - they had to be kept in a small
room of their own with extra sound-dampening as they were so loud.

Incredibly fast though.

Phil.

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