[ale] Need Tractor Feed Dot Matrix printer

[Matt Magee]

Not old enough to have worked with a 1403, but one place I worked at had 
a pair of 6262s which apparently operate in a similar manner.  The 6262s 
will induce hearing loss if you leave the doors open!

People would ask why we used these huge twinax connected monsters.  The 
reply was always "because it works!"

Ben Coleman wrote:

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> Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> | My first home computer (1975) ran a Teletype ASR33...
> | Now that was a kick. Stood on an attached stand and was shipped to
> | me bolted to a wooden palette. Sounded just like a newsroom at 110
> baud :-)
> | Is anyone else ancient on this list or are the other geezers still
> | running DOS or Windows?
>
> I'm ancient enough to remember the IBM 1403 line printers from the same
> era.  Talk about loud!  I remember one where if you had several lines of
> asterisks (typical for the header and trailer pages), it sounded as
> though someone was hitting it with a hammer.  Fast, though!
>
> Ben
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