Re: HTML - presentation vs structure

Dave,

Around 1980 the Math / Computer Science club at Winona State University took
a tour of the Rochester plant. Their highlight to show us was the latest and
greatest S/38 but that all went over my head and left no impression. The
main thing I remember there was a room that had a laser printer for their
internal reports that was extremely fast. Maybe it was one of these 3800s.
Later, after I started working in the S/34 & S/38 world, Bill Oberg at the
Rochester plant told me about the printer I saw. He said the paper came on a
big roll and it printed green bar and perfed the paper as it went. They
couldn't use boxes of paper because turning it on and then turning it off
would use almost a whole box of paper. That seems a bit far-fetched but the
printer was impressive enough to be my main memory of the plant tour.

Blair Hamren


"Dave Odom" wrote

GML was created to be a mechanism of generating
interpretive "code" for making publications especially those that would
be printed by IBM laser printers.  The old 3800 comes to mind which
printed continuous sheets at MANY thousands of lines per minute (kinda
like a mini version of how a newspaper is printed except using dynamic
content creation, not static plates).