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The IBM 1416 is an interchangeable train cartridge introduced with the 1403-N1 and also used with the IBM 3203. This means instead of using a chain of linked characters, the printer uses a train of unlinked characters. The cartridge allows the operator to change the font and/or character set arrangement being used by the printer.
Released in 1959, the IBM 1403 Model 1 is the first hammer based printer produced by IBM. It uses type slugs on a chain and is the first IBM printer to do so. In 1967 the IBM 1403 Model N1 is the first IBM printer to use a train rather than a chain. This change is made because it is not possible to achieve higher speeds using a chain.
IBM defined two sets of printer commands, and therefore two sets of printer control characters are available. The first set of commands did not send any data to be printed to the printer but only a paper movement instruction. These are called immediate commands. The second set of commands send data to be printed on the current line plus a paper ...
An IBM 1403 printer opened up as it would be to change paper. Note the form tractors on each side of the paper, and the carriage control tape in upper right. The print chain is covered by a full-width ink ribbon, see lower right: The hinged chain-and-ribbon assembly is here swung open towards the camera like a gate. Green-zebra-paper
IBM 5203 printer for System/3. A smaller (IBM 5203) printer was attached to the main system. The 5203 was a chain printer with interchangeable cartridges. It could run at 100 or 200 lines per minute, based on model. [9] Later on, IBM offered multiple models of the existing IBM 1403 printer line, which had been originally built for the IBM 1401 ...
ASA control characters are simple printing command characters used to control the movement of paper through line printers. These commands are presented as special characters in the first column of each text line to be printed, and affect how the paper is advanced before the line is printed. The remainder of the line is printed starting in the ...
The 1401, announced on October 5, 1959, is the first member of the IBM 1400 series.It was the first computer to deploy over 10,000 units. [1] The IBM 1410 has a similar design, but with a larger address space.
Carriage control tape on an IBM 1403 printer. One channel punch is visible in this photo. A carriage control tape was a loop of punched tape that was used to synchronize rapid vertical page movement in most IBM and many other line printers from unit record days through the 1960s. The tape loop was as long as the length of a single page.