IBM 716

It was introduced on May 21, 1952 with the IBM 701 and withdrawn from marketing on July 14, 1969.

[1] The 716 was based on IBM 407 accounting machine technology and had 120 rotary type wheels, each with 48 possible characters.

Only 72 characters could be transferred from IBM 7090 computer to the 716 in a single operation, but a full line could be printed at half speed.

Characters were printed by sending bit patterns that corresponded to the impulses that a 407 would see when reading a punched card.

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