Ken ShirriffAug 3, 2024
The Space Shuttle had a 59-pound printer on board, known as the Interim Teleprinter. Putting this heavy printer in orbit cost $1.5 million per flight, but it was a key piece of flight hardware,
providing the astronauts with mission plans, weather reports, and other documents from Mission Control. Let's take a look inside... 1/12
Show threadKen ShirriffAug 3, 2024
The Shuttle printer uses a spinning metal drum with raised characters. 80 hammers, one for each column, fire at the exact moments to hit the ribbon and paper against a character on the drum as it spins by. 2/12
Show threadPoul-Henning Kamp

@kenshirriff

You're confusing some of us now because C.Itoh made actual "shuttle (line-)printers"

Their "shuttle printer" was a matrix printer, but instead of a head which traveled the full length of the line, they had a head with 132 pins which just vibrated the width of one single character each.

Huge beasts, very fast (300 and 600 LPM as I recall) and you could hear the hum from the vibrating head two floors down when it ran...

Aug 3, 2024 at 3:03pmWeb
Show threadPoul-Henning KampAug 3, 2024

@kenshirriff

This looks like one of them:

https://www.ebay.de/itm/156257585647

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Show threadfuricleAug 3, 2024
@bsdphk @kenshirriff we had one of those at work forever. Went to the trash still working.