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The first computer printers were adaptations of existing punch card printing accounting machines or of electric typewriters. UNIVAC used a Remington Rand electric typewriter attached to a magnetic tape drive for off-line 10 cps printing. The IBM 700 series computers used a plugboard programmed IBM 407 accounting machine for on-line 100 lpm printing. Other early computer makers did the same, if they already made typewriters or accounting machines they used them, if not they bought them from companies that did and adapted them to their computer.

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