10 Nov
2017
10 Nov
'17
8:04 a.m.
Doug wrote:
Standard "green bar" page sizes included portrait-format pages of
8½ × 11 inches, usually printed at 80 columns by 66 lines (at 6
lines per inch) or 88 lines (at 8 LPI), and landscape-format pages
of 14 × 11 inches, usually printed at 132 columns by 66 or 88 lines.
Also common were landscape-format pages of 14 × 8½ inches, allowing
for 132 columns by 66 lines (at 8 LPI) on a more compact page.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_printer#Paper_.28forms.29_handling
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Cheers, Ralph.
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Interesting.
I wonder if that's where the 132 column (alternative)
standard came from.
No. IBM's printers were 132 columns even before stored-program
computers.