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On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:48:04 -0600, Califbill
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:50:00 -0600, Califbill
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NCR had a train printer also. But was more of a buss saw effect. We used
M to check hammers. Wanted line up and even color across the M.

I never saw one. Was it a licensed IBM 1403/3203 or did you make them
yourself?

We made them. We sold one to a hardware wholesaler and they complained
about the slow printing performance. They sold lots of times in dozen
amounts, and there was only one Z in the train. Installed a few more, and
speed come up to the 3000+ lines per minute rate.

I guess NCR just never had that much presence in DC, at least not in
the main frame business. They were the king of the ATM and POS
business tho.
Most of the competition I saw was for processors, memory and tape
drives. I never saw anyone going after our card, disk or printer
business.
I heard there were people rebadging the 1403 tho
I was real happy to see the laser printers and get away from all of
that.
They went a consistent 32 inches a second, no matter what you were
printing and no noise.

My first job after getting my degree, was at Itel. We were building a
channel interface to a Siemens ND2 laser printer to mimic an IBM laser
printer. I disassembled the channel diagnostics and figured out your
undocumented commands and what the response was supposed to be. Fun job.