[cctalk] Re: Elliott Algol

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Feb 16, 2025, at 7:38 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> .... It also
> had a thermal printer called "teledotis." It was very fast, so some
> called it the Whippet. It electrostatically deposited soot onto special
> paper, which was then fused by a heat roller.

I would call that an "electrostatic printer" -- xerographic printer work that 
way, depositing plastic soot that is then melted onto the paper.  At U of 
Illinois I used a printer very much like what you describe, made by Varian.  
That was a dot matrix line printer -- a row of pixels across the page at once 
-- we used for printing music scores.  100 dpi or so if I remember right.

        paul