Word: styli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 near by sends electronic impulses to various styli, which then swiftly "burn" the characters into the sensitive paper...
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