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unusual facts about daisy wheel printer



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Printing was to any of several different letter-quality daisy wheel printers including a DEC variant of the Diablo 630.


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Daisy wheel printing

In 1972 a team at Diablo Systems led by engineer David S. Lee developed the first commercially successful daisy wheel printer, a device that was faster and more flexible than IBM's golf-ball devices, being capable of 30 cps (characters per second), whereas IBM's Selectric operated at 13.4 cps.