Insurance Company Software

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007, Fairlight wrote:
>Only Bill Campbell would say something like:
>> 
>> With or without the letter ``R'', which always seemed to be the
>> first to break.
>
>Shouldn't it be 'e', just by statistical probability?  Or was there a
>manufacturing defect that left a weak spot on the 'R'?

I don't know, but it seemed that it was always the ``R'' key that broke off
first.

The reliability of the Daisy Wheel IIs was amazing.  It was built by Ricoh,
and they were practically indestructible (although they didn't like it much
when somebody dropped a box of paper clips into them when the power was on.
They tended to short things out.

They tended to move around a bit, particularly if the print job had lots of
whitespace with printing on the far right side.  Unlike the Diablo
printers, which printed bi-directionally, the DW IIs only printed left to
right, but they had very smart controllers so were much faster than the
Diablos as they really move the head fast over whitespace.

Bill
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