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...19th century Philadelphia stagehand bequeathed his head to the local company "to represent the skull of Yorick in the play Hamlet.'" With an exultant flourish, a Denver printer willed five shares of his brewery stock to the president of the Colorado Woman's Christian Temperance Union. German Poet Heinrich Heine left everything to his wife on the specific condition that she remarry, "because then there will be at least one man to regret my death...
...York Times that for 65 years the chair set aside for the boss has had an invisible name plate bearing the legend, "Reserved for Family." It is a tradition that dates all the way back to the turn of the century when Adolph Ochs, a printer turned publisher, hocked his Chattanooga Times to take a flyer at running a paper in the big town...
...answers at 62,500 characters per second, but no printing machine has even come close to keeping pace; the computers that turn out data on space shots often are held up for a day or two because their data cannot be recorded fast enough. Now a new ultrahigh-speed printer has been developed that can print as fast as a computer can produce its thoughts. It is so fast, in fact, that it can print the entire King James Bible in about 70 seconds...
...printer was developed by Radiation Inc., a small, space-oriented electronics manufacturer that sprang up 13 years ago near Cape Canaveral and has been experimenting with electrosensitive printing for several years. Its printer uses electronic impulses, not type, to form the characters. An 18-ft.-long monster, it looks like a cross between a filing cabinet and a press, eats up a continuous sheet of electrosensitive paper at a speed of 483 ft. per minute. The paper is drawn under a stationary set of 600 tiny needles-or styli-that are arranged in a 10-in. row. The computer standing...
...high-speed printer sells for $350,000 to $500,000. First one to go into use is scheduled to begin operation next month at the University of California's nuclear research laboratory, where it will print computers' thoughts about thermonuclear research. Radiation hopes to make two or three of the printers a year at first, eventually hopes that the machine will win acceptance for commercial use. In its present form, it would not be used to print newspapers or magazines, since electrosensitive paper is prohibitively expensive and the quality of the result is not nearly as good...