With all this talk about Friden and Singer, perhaps someone can help me jog my memory. We were working on a contract that, as remote terminals, included a card reader (singer) and a printing terminal (singer also). The terminal consisted of a leadscrew-fed printing head with a vertical typewheel rotating perpendicular to the (tractor-feed) paper. Said typewheel was in contact with an ink-soaked felt wheel. Carriage return was accomplished via a large spring. Utter steampunk simplicity.
What I remember the printers most for was that every printing session started and ended with a page eject, as the ink from the constantly-spinning typewheel made a glorious streak on any stationary paper. I think the printers were eventually scrapped, but I wonder if anyone remembers them. Terminals involving card punching used Univac keypunches--the ones with the LCD display and buffer memory--you typed a card and then hit "feed" and the blank was punched all at once. Apparently, there was an option to hook the thing to a remote server. --Chuck
