Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 6. 1966.
Output devices
Output devices
The most common forms of computer output are printed paper and punched cards or paper tape.
But of note are developments in graph plotters, television style display terminals and voice communication, all of which are commercially available but comparatively expensive.
Printers used in New Zealand vary in speed from 10 characters per second to 3600 characters per second.
In all cases, Information from the core storage of the processor is simply transmitted to the output device by the control unit directed by an instruction: e.g. print from word 66 to printer number 1.
It is important to appreciate that the formal or layout of the printed output is completely under the control of the programme and it is not uncommon for the same computer to. say. print monthly statements of account, and immediately produce comparative analyses of financial results in graphical form when the statement run is complete.