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Simon Wright wrote:
> 
> Lineprinters had 132 columns as I remember.

Yes. 600 LPM on 11x14-inch landscape paper with colored lines across it. 
Fast-moving chains or cylinders inside that made it dangerous to wear a tie 
(that was my excuse, anyway).

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!"
Dr. Strangelove
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