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Originally Posted by kennyc
I repaired many many many of these:
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Yes, I had two of those, every morning we would print out cases of paper reports and distribute them to the various shops. They all had
VT-100 terminals in their shops, but most refused to use them unless they had their morning "run".
Those monsters would print an entire line at a time, thus the name "line printers", and would sit there going CHUNK-CHUNK-CHUNK as they ate paper and ribbons.