Dataproducts made a series of printers that used bands. The B-200, B-600, etc. I've suggested these over on the Hercules list for those die-hards who want the most in realism. They print and sound as much like a 1403 as anything I've seen.
Fast too. Sorry if this had already been mentioned, I came into the thread late. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steele, Phil Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 6:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] 1401 & Music err... Umm... I can hardly bring myself to say it... Wouldn't you need a Drum printer to make up this err... Band ? (along with clanking chains and tooting trains, ) Phil Steele (who couldn't hel;p himself) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 1401 & Music In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/13/2006 at 02:30 PM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Ah! I guess you must have had a "band printer" then? <grin> Not with only one 1403. For that matter, doesn't it have to have several different types of instruments to be a band, not just several of the same type? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -------------------------------------------------------- If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ -------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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