Card-Operated Table Printer Sample
Page 69 of the Cincinnati Observatory reprint of Watson Lab's
Ephemerides of 783 Minor Planets for the Year
1947, printed on the
Naval Observatory's
Card-Operated Table Printer, scanned from
a copy of the original publication in the University of Toronto library
by Herb Grosch in April 2004. This page was
included as
Figure 7 in Hollander, Frederick H., "Punched Card Calculating and
Printing Methods in the Nautical Almanac Office", Proceedings,
Scientific Computation Forum, IBM, New York (1948), as a
"masterpiece of typing", illustrating most of the features of the C-O-T
on one page.
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Last update:
Sat Apr 24 12:23:32 2004
Frank da Cruz / fdc@columbia.edu /
Columbia University Computing History