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Remember the 1980s? Oversized shoulder pads, Metal Mickey and... sticky keyboards?

jake Silver badge

Re: PEBBAP

My IBM 1403 does about 23 pages (~1400 lines) of 11X14 (132 columns) per minute. Can crank up to over 6 feet per second if the printout contains a lot of blank lines. It can empty a box of fan-fold faster than you can kill the print process. (The print buffer is only 140 characters (of core), so killing the process, if you can, stops the printer pretty quickly.)

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