Univac 9400 Print Mechanism
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand Univac
notes: label: Description
content: The object consists of a steel supporting frame, a ribbon drive mechanism, the ribbon, and the rotating embossed print drum (all removed as one piece from the printer cabinet).
label: Description
content: According to the accession file, this particular example of early high-speed printing technology (a 'drum' printer as opposed to a 'chain' printer) is though important, rather scarce. It was used on perhaps ten percent of the printers of its time and thus is only rarely seen in surviving older equipment. It is the basic type of mechanism that was first used in the high speed computer printers (as compared to the slower speed accounting machines which used a different type of printing device). It represents a basic mechanisms of the high speed printers that were so common a part of the larger computer systems.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Accession file 1987.0465.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0465.01.1
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0465.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1987.0465
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Printer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: synthetic fibers (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 37 1/2 in x 13 3/4 in; 22.86 cm x 95.25 cm x 34.925 cm