Re:Gary Starkweather died on December 26, 2019
by jacquesm on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @09:58PM
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Yes, many mainframe shops replaced their line printers with early lasers (which were super expensive, the price only came down after a couple of years).
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Re:Gary Starkweather died on December 26, 2019
by kjs3 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @11:17PM
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Yup. At Georgia Tech, they attached a massive Xerox 9700 series laser printer to one of the CDC Cyber 180s (it may have been more complicated connection). It was a few hundred square feet of floor space for the whole install, it could spit out vast amounts of paper, and was pretty finicky to keep running. But (most) everyone liked it better than the equally massive, vastly louder, band printers.