Ken Shirriff @righto.com · Oct 2 The hammers looked okay, but @tubetime.bsky.social found that hammer #83 was sticky. He cleaned it and then the printer worked, just in time for the demo. (Stop by the museum on Wednesdays or Saturdays to see the system in operation.) Photo shows a hammer from an earlier repair.
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If you want to know more about the IBM 1403 printer, I wrote about how we played music on it: www.righto.com/2019/09/risk... I also made an animation to explain the extraordinarily complicated timing between the hammers and the chain to print characters: static.righto.com/ibm1401/prin...