IBM 402 printing tabulator

[Stephen Partington]

No but I recall the movie.

On Jan 6, 2017 2:19 AM, "Mark Jarvis" <m.jarvis at cox.net> wrote:

>
> Watched a DVD tonight of *Desk Set* with Spencer Tracy & Katherine
> Hepburn. It opened with a shot of what purported to be an IBM 402 printing.
> Purported because the printing on the paper was centered on the page while
> the type bars were only shown rising and falling on the left. Someone once
> said that the type bars of the 402, some alphanumeric & some numeric, rose
> and fell like the tides of the sea and damn near as fast.
>
> Anyway, it brought back memories. Anyone else remember the old 402?
>
> Mark Jarvis
> Certified Old Fogey
>
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