RE: Operating system name

For the Young People on this list who may not know what a "1403 band
printer" is (was), this is a good beginning:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/how-the-ibm-1403-printer-hammered
-out-1100-lines-per-minute

My father was one of the eltro-mechanical engineers at IBM
(Endicott/Glendale lab) that developed the hammer mechanism on the 1403/3211
that drove the paper into the type band, when it had rotated into the
correct position. The engineering involved in getting everything into
position at just the right time was truly amazing.

Craig Pelkie


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Joe,
I can remember that ribbon going bad
right in the middle of a report that was a couple of hundred pages long and
having to restart it. Blue fingers. Lots of blue fingers.

BIll



From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 05/02/2017 04:49 PM
Subject: Re: Operating system name
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On 5/2/2017 1:52 PM, Jeff Young wrote:

+1 on S/3 CCP Model 15D

My first machine. 3741 diskette keypunch. 1403 band printer.
Removable disk packs. 5424 MFCU (which may or may not have stood for
"multi-function" depending on the day).

Bursting multi-part printouts and putting them into boxes.

Yeah, I'm old too. :)

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