[vcf-midatlantic] Greenbar print

Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Sun Feb 28 04:58:32 UTC 2021


On Sat, 27 Feb 2021, Jeffrey Brace wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:45 PM Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Feb 2021, Jeffrey Brace wrote:
>>
>>>>     I goofed on the first run: I had the columns set to 80, instead of
>>>> 132.
>>>> Here's the updated version:
>>>>
>>>> http://q7.neurotica.com/Colossus1.jpg
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks so much for this Mike!  It's awesome that you could do this on
>> such
>>> short notice.
>>
>>     I got lucky. That printer hasn't been run since 2009.  :-)
>>
>
> So someone else pointed out that dot matrix printout isn't historically
> accurate. So what kind of printer would have actually been used for the
> Apollo 8 code?

    A chain-train or drum printer, such as an IBM 1403. The CHM has a working 
1403 on their 1401 system. I wonder why she didn't contact them?


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