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61018 Bill Dunlop working on the Rank prototype xerographic printer


Description of Photograph

Photograph of Bill Dunlop from the Rank Electronics Dept with the early experimental model of the Xeronic Printer later used on LEO III.  

According to the printed caption on the reverse, probably text from a trade brochure, Bill Dunlop is 'putting a sub-unit into one of the electronic cubicles of the Xeronic computer output printer. The production model Xeronic will print computer output at 3,000 lines a minute, 128 characters on a line, and in the same high quality printing operation will print its own forms to contain the information. The prototype prints 1,500 lines a minute'.

Provenance
Collected by Peter Bird as part of his research for his book LEO - The First Business Computer (1994).


Date: c1958

Physical Description: 1 photographic print; black and white

Archives Hub References: CMLEO/PB/PH/3/61018
PJB/3/1/26

Other References: DCMLEO20190816005
                  
                  
                  
                  


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Photograph of 61018  Bill Dunlop working on the Rank prototype xerographic printer

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Rank Precision Industries

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