[SunRescue] Re: First Computers (was Re: Yay, I don't feel...)

[Jeff Workman]

--On Saturday, March 10, 2001 2:54 PM -0800 Robert Novak 
<rnovak at indyramp.com> wrote:

> But the cool thing about ADAM was they advertised the printer speed in
> WORDS per MINUTE whereas everything else was CHARACTERS per SECOND. I
> think it was the slowest printer ever sold at retail. 16wpm, if memory
> serves, which is 80cpm or 1.3cps.

Not to mention the noise factor.  I think I can attribute at least *some* 
of my hearing problem to that thing.

Jeff