On Tue, 05 May 2009 21:22:23 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 05 May 2009 20:31:24 -0400, HK wrote:

Nobody fixes laser printers now. They are throw away things. This was
the old IBM 3800, about 18 feet long with the burster with a 3'
diameter PC drum and a 3.2KW fuser that moved 3 feet of paper a
second, printed, trimmed, bursted and stacked.
The lizard was unhappy when one was broke and frantic when it was 2.


18' long? Holy schitt!


This is a picture of one without the burster.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/hi...year_1976.html
That adds 5' to the end. There was also the roll feed that added a few
feet to the other end. It used a big roll of paper instead of the fan
fold box.
When they use box paper they used 3600 sheet boxes of paper instead of
the standard 2400 sheet box regular mainframe printers used.
The printer was solid as a rock, the burster sucked.

I remember those and earlier when they moved from greenbar.
Smelly.
IBM had a fancy for "3800" If I recall right 3800 was a one of the
most common disk packs. Or was it 3750.
Used to figure space allocations with the track/cylinder counts of the
different devices. IBM yellow card days.

--Vic