Date: | 1964 |
Material: | Case-hardened steel slugs, steel cartridge |
Dimensions: | 17½ x 2½ in. (44.5 x 6.4 cm) |
Company: | IBM |
A printer chain cartridge for the IBM 1403 series of line printers. Different cartridges held different sets of characters. The 1403 could print 1100 132-character lines per minute. The chain travelled at 206 in. per second. Hammers would strike the slugs as they passed over the desired location on the page.