EC 7040. Printer from the past

Once upon a time, when computers were still very large ... a little smaller printers were to help them.



Today I will show what kind of hardware we have in the data center. For starters, pictures, and for those who want to read something - at the end there will be some text








Well, now, as promised, some text.
These printers are alphanumeric printing devices designed to operate in an industrial system 26 hours a day, 374 days a year. Exactly so they print almost non-stop. It takes a bunch of paper (read a bunch of wood). Since the print is roll, sometimes there is so much paper that you can get a little lost in it;).
The joke is that these "eeski" have been working for quite some time, having managed to survive the old mainframes such as "electronics" and managed to catch the handsome IBM-made ones.
The fact that there is no replacement for them is understandable and at the same time a little depressing :(. It is only striking that now, in the 21st century, in an era when people are thinking about the interaction of space technologies and railways, at this wonderful time, pieces of iron coexist on earth different generations, and they don’t just exist and work fruitfully. Surprise you or not, but on the next table there was a machine for processing punched tapes, a working ...

upd . On Monday I’ll try to make my way to punched tapes or as it’s more logical to call them the remnants from the production of confetti)