1963 · High-Speed Line Printer · Werk 714 von 1.871

A high-speed line printer in a government computing hall in Suitland, Maryland, on an October afternoon of 1963, a waist-high cabinet of grey painted steel about one metre high, its hood raised, from the paper slot a last web of continuous fanfold paper twenty-eight centimetres wide with sprocket-hole margins hanging at a steep angle down into a wire waste-paper basket, the lines on the paper showing only as fine grey horizontal bands, a man's hand in a white shirt cuff parting the final sheet along its perforation, behind it soft in focus the long console with its lamps dark and a vacant swivel chair, low amber sunlight from windows on the right.