Before LPT: The Machines That Printed Mainframes

The pre-history of the parallel port — IBM's 1403, drums and chains, thousand-line-a-minute line printers, and the moment printing became a personal computer's first job.

Playlist by @parallel_port_history

6 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Printers Explained - Laser, Inkjet, Thermal, & Dot Matrix — PowerCert Animated Videos
2. The Computer Chronicles - Mainframes to Minis to Micros (1983) — The Computer Chronicles
3. Huge heavy and super fast - Lineprinters - (PWJ153) — Play with Junk
4. Why Printers May Be the Most Important Invention You Forgot About — History of Simple Things
5. IBM 1403 Printer — wcdeckerjr
6. The Evolutionary History of Printers: From Ancient Press to Modern Tech! — StoryLand