Google goes back to the 60s

[James Knott]

sciguy-Lmt0BfyYGMw at public.gmane.org wrote:
> What I like is when they make a like of stars to make a horizontal line on
> the lineprinter, there are even random imperfections introduced as to how
> the stars line up.
>
> So, on a 300-baud (or thereabouts) lineprinter, it takes about 5-7 minutes
> to print a 1-page (8 hits) output ... ? I remember it being faster, but I
> used line printers from the early '80s, not the '60s. Did they have
> bi-directional printing heads in the '60s?

I don't recall bi-directional printing before dot matrix printers. The 
big systems used drum printers, where there were rows of characters 
around a cylinder.
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