Kodak Komstar

[1] Moreover, KOM 90 found resistance from customers who did not want to bring it into raised-floor computer rooms for fear the processing chemicals would leak out and damage wiring and cabling underneath the floor.

[2] Unlike its predecessor, the Komstar employed a laser beam and a dry processing approach using Kodak's new Recordak Dacomatic DL SO-030 film.

[5] Compared to wet-solution systems, it represented a considerable labor simplification and also allowed units to be placed in computer rooms without worry, with one customer reporting that it occupied only a third of the space as before.

[5] The Starlink software was built to mimic the interface characteristics of an IBM line printer,[5] and came with its own User's Guide.

[7] As with a printer, the Komstar made use of IBM's forms control buffer (FCB) mechanism;[5] IBM mainframe shops might store the source for the forms control information used to build FCB images for both their printer and the Komstar into their own partitioned data set such as ACME.SOURCE.FCBIMAGE, while load modules would go into SYS1.IMAGELIB.

[13] COM equipment was often used together with computer aided retrieval (CAR) systems, and Kodak's offerings in that domain were known as "KAR".

[1] Despite the microform industry having become low growth by the early 1990s,[10] the Komstar product line was a profitable one for Kodak.