IBM 370 printer

For the line of mainframe computers, see IBM System/370.
IBM 370 printer and IBM 323 card punch

The IBM 370 printer was used on the IBM 305 RAMAC computer system, introduced by IBM on September 14, 1956. The 370 was connected to the 305 by a serial data line from the S track of the computer's drum memory (the printer and punch both obtain information from a single output track, the control as to what information to print or punch and how, is within the print and punch units)[1] and printed 80-columns with a punched tape controlled carriage. Line formatting was programmed by inserting wire jumpers into a plugboard control panel.[2]

The printer mechanism used an eight sided, seven position (56 character) print slug in a horizontal orientation. The X, O, and 2 bits of the character code rotate the slug and the 1, 4, and 8 bits selected the position. The platen hammer then struck the paper from behind, causing the selected character to print. Of the 56 characters on the print slug, only 47 were printable with the standard valid character set of the IBM 305 computer—the complete alphabet, numbers 0–9, and eleven special characters (48 characters, including the blank character).[3]

The printer can achieve the speed of 50 columns per second, with processing of 30 cards per minute; At two seconds per line can be achieved 1,800 lines per hour.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b M. L. Lesser; J. W. Haanstra (1957). "The RAMAC Data-Processing Machine: System Organization of the IBM 305". Association for Computing Machinery: 139–146. doi:10.1145/1455533.1455565. S2CID 16127145.
  2. ^ "IBM Reference Manual - 305 RAMAC" (PDF). bitsavers.trailing-edge.com. IBM. pp. 99–124. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-08-26.
  3. ^ 305 RAMAC Manual of Operation, IBM, April 1957.

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