chain printer speed?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 6/15/2006 at 12:05 AM Roger Holmes wrote:

>Was it because of poor maintenance? My drum printer has not actually  
>printed anything for a decade or more, though as of April it can now feed
paper  
>instead of making burningsmells from the sprag magnet solenoids.

I think the old Univac drum printers were just sub-par.  My experience with
the CDC 501 showed some waviness, but not an annoying amount, unless there
was a sticky hammer.  But it was pretty easy to tell the difference between
501 drum and 512 train printer output.

Cheers,
Chuck