Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
Tom Marchant wrote:
It wasn't so much the cost of the print trains, but the lower case
only ones were faster.
ITYM upper case only. The AN and HN trains had four repetitions of the
(upper case) alphabet, whereas the PN train had three, and the TN
train had two. I never used AN or SN, and don't really remember what
they had. We also had a custom train made according to American
Library Association specifications, that had even more special
characters, and was really slow (I added it as a "UN" train <g.).
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT
1403 printers had chains, 3211 had trains.
Both had a FOLD option to upper case on the fly.
I don't think I had lower case fingers till the 3270s came out.
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