[Usagi Electric] has his Centurion minicomputer (and a few others) running like a top. One feature that’s missing, though, is the ability to produce a hard copy. Now, a serious machine like the ...

What does it take to get a 47-year-old printer working? [Usagi Electric] shows us it’s not too hard, even if you don’t exactly know what you’re doing. When we last left this project, he’d tested and ...

An early line printer that used type slugs linked together in a chain as its printing mechanism. The chain spun horizontally around a set of hammers. When the desired character was in front of the ...

IMGCAP(1)]My first exposure to computer printers came in the late ’60s, with the IBM 1403 chain printer. This was a freestanding behemoth that used a long chain, somewhat like a bicycle or motorcycle ...