chain printer

Bar printers were similar to chain printers but were slower and less expensive.

These earlier peripherals used a different numbering system, such as the IBM 1403 chain printer.

The different types of line printers are drum printers and chain printers.

Compared to drum printers, chain printers had the advantage that the type chain could usually be changed by the operator.

Chain printers (also known as train printers) placed the type on moving bars (a horizontally-moving chain).

IBM did not however have a xerographic printer to base the Jubilee on (all printers up to this point were chain printers).

In 'chain printers' (also known as 'train printers'), the character set is arranged multiple times around a chain that travels horizontally past the print line.

Band printers are a variation of chain printers, where a thin steel band is used instead of a chain, with the characters embossed on the band.

STEVE: ...the person selling it knew, he himself printed it out in the basement of Georgia Tech on a chain printer or something.

IBM was probably the best-known chain printer manufacturer and the IBM 1403 is probably the most famous example of a chain printer.

More well-known were various demo programs to play music on transistor radios placed on the CPU and computer "art", mostly kitschy pictures printed using Xs and 0s on chain printers.