I meant to say that the UPPER case only print trains were faster. But then I remembered this. Any time unprintable data was sent to the printer, it was *much* slower. That includes lower case data without the proper print train.
For a real adventure, we used to print braille on a 1403. On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:05:39 -0500, Tom Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It wasn't so much the cost of the print trains, but the lower case only >ones were faster. > >On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:34:29 -0400, Hall, Ken (GTI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>It wasn't just the keypunch machines. Lower case seems to have been >>considered a luxury all around. >> >>The college I went to was so poor, we could only afford upper-case-only >>print trains for our 1403 printers. (Before that, I think they hand >>wrote the listings with quill pens...) >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
