[vcf-midatlantic] Greenbar print

[Jeffrey Brace]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:58 PM Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> 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?
>

Oh she contacted CHM first. And the director of CHM referred her to us! You
forget that CHM is closed because of Covid-19 and that no one can go into
work on anything now. So no one would be allowed to print it for her.


>
> Mike Loewen                             mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
> Old Technology                          http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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