Old Enough to Drink

[APKhaos]

In the plotter generation, line printers were the top dog for text. Massive drum spinning at high speed with little hammers for each character position [fixed pitch text of course].
These babies could do a rocking 1200 lines/minute [around 20 pages/minute] on large format z fold paper with those ubiquitous serrated sprocket hole edges.
Nobody has these at home, but corporations and government agencies had rooms full of them.

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[JimF22003]

I worked my way through college back in the late 70s babysitting one of these bad boys all night long:

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