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Daisy Wheel
In the early 1980s, daisy wheel printers cost $3,000 and more. They clicked and clacked to produce near typewriter-quality output. The technology was popular because you could change the fonts by changing wheels.
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The First Edition
All 330 terms in the first edition of The Computer Glossary (the origin of this encyclopedia) were written in 1980 on an 8-bit microcomputer and printed on a daisy wheel printer. Because the daisy wheels contained only one font size, the term names were left blank so that large Kroytype labels could be pressed on by hand afterwards.
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All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
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All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
Copyright © 1981-2010 by Computer Language Company Inc. All rights reserved.
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