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Radiation Printer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's first "Radiation Printer", circa 1964. It got its name from its manufacturer, Radiation, Inc., of Melbourne, Florida. It was based on an electrographic printing technology, and utilized huge rolls of paper weighing more than 200 pounds. It was capable of printing 30,000 alpha-numeric lines per minute, with each line containing 120 characters. Each character was formed within a 7 x 9 dot matrix. [More information]

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Uploaded on August 12, 2010
Taken on February 9, 2007