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The first computer printers were adaptations of existing punch card printing accounting machines or of electric typewriters. Printers were long used for teletypes before personal computers were invented.

The first printer design was likely that of Charles Babbage who designed (but did not build) a rod-and-key printer for his "difference engine" in the early 1840's. The printer was actually built from his plans 150 years later, and completed in April, 2000.

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