Seminar in Computer Science - 236801
Input/Output Devices
1864
Typewriter
9 QWERTY, Christopher Sholes 9 52% Q W E R T Y U I O P 32% A S D F G H J K L ; ' 16% Z X C V B N M , . /
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1865
Teletype
Writing Ball 9 Rasmus Malling-Hansen
9 1910: first commercial installation of a printing telegraph
9 different placements of the letters on the keys
9 trademark used for a teletypewriter \ teleprinter
9 electromagnetic escapement for the ball
9 1957: 300 WPM
9 1915: 30 or 50 WPM
9 the first electric typewriter
1954
Drum Printer
1959
Line Printer
9 1954: UNIVAC, UNIPRINTER, Earl Masterson 9 typewriter with an attached tape drive 9 first commercially available high speed printer 9 600 LPM, 130 CPL
9 IBM 1403, 600 LPM 9 600-1200 LPM ( 10-20 PPM) 9 a lot of noise 9 were always enclosed in sound-absorbing cases of varying sophistication 9 not expensive
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1959
Plotter 9 graphics printer that draws images with ink pens 9 1959: Calcomp 560, first computer graphics output devices sold 9 1970: Hewlett Packard and Tektronix desk-sized flatbed plotters
1970
Dot Matrix Printer 9 impact matrix printer 9 the oldest of the three technologies used in most of today’s printers
1961
IBM Selectric Printer 9 pivoting typeball 9 different fonts 9 14.8 CPS 9 high quality printed output
Dot Matrix Printer 9each character as a group of small dots
9 1970: 165 CPS ,$2,995
9tiny metal rod, also called a "wire" or "pin“
9 1977: speed of 240 CPS
9one or two columns of dot hammers
9 1983: ImageWriter, $675
9speeds range from 200 to 400 cps
Dot Matrix Printer Few of the more common problems :
Inkjet Printer 9 non-impact method 9 canister of ink instead of ribbon
9 light or poor print quality
9 three ink colors (cyan, magenta and yellow)
9 paper jams
9 black ink for pure black printing
9 missing print
9 propelling tiny droplets of liquid ink onto paper
9 paper out
9 higher quality text than dot matrix printers
9 dark smudges 9 flecks of ink
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1964
Inkjet Printer
1867
9 1867: William Thomson
9 Thermal Ink Jet
9 1951: first commercial model, Siemens
9 Piezoelectric Ink Jet
9 one of the oldest ink jet technologies in use and is fairly mature
9 Continuous Ink Jet
1977
Drop on Demand Method
9 control a continuous inkjet droplet stream direction onto the printed media or into a gutter
1964
9 small resistive heating pins melt wax-based ink onto ordinary paper or burn dots onto special coated paper
9 thermal , piezoelectric 9 ejects ink droplets only when they are needed
9 typically 300dpi 9 specialist applications
9 faster and more quietly than dot matrix printers
Electrophotography
Thermal Wax Printer 9 dye-sublimation and solid ink
9 Siemens, PT-80
1938
Continuous Ink Jet Technology
Technologies to control the flow of ink:
1948
Xerography 9“dry writing”
9 Chester Carlson 9 Xerography 910-22-38 ASTORIA
9a dry photographic or photocopying process 9used in copy machines, laser and LED printers 9officially announced in 1948
9 $150,000,000
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1949
Xerography 9General Electric, Eastman Kodak, IBM 9Haloid Company - 1949 9 Xerox Corporation
1972
Laser Printer
9 1970 – 1971: Gary Starkweather - Scanned Laser Output Terminal, “SLOT” 9 1972: Butler Lampson and Ronald Rider – control system 9 EARS: Ethernet, Alto, Research character generator, Scanned laser output terminal 9 first laser printer 9 base of the Xerox 9700
1978
Xerox 9700
Laser Printer
9 Xerox 9700 laser printing system 9 industry's first commercial laser printer
9 electrostatic charges
9 120 pages per minute
9 "painting" a negative of the page to be printed on the charged drum
9 fastest commercial laser printer 9 huge
9 where light falls, the charge is dissipated, leaving a positive image to be printed
Laser Printer 9 high quality text and graphics on plain paper 9 fastest models can print over 200 monochrome pages per minute (12,000 pages per hour)
Color Laser Printer 9 CMYK colored toner (cyan, yellow, and magenta ) 9 complexity of the printing process 9 each of the four inks is applied to the drum before the page is printed
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1936
9 inkjet
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9 impact 9 piezo electric
9 One-handed versions
9 thermal wax 9 laser
9 AZERTY
9 thermal bubble
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9 dye sublimation 9daisy-wheel 9 bubblejet
Non-Traditional Keyboards
1952
Simplified
9 1936: August DVORAK
9 dot matrix
Right-handed
9 drum
Keyboard
Left-handed
Printer Technologies
Light Pen / Gun 9 photosensitive device 9 1952: handmade prototype of a "light gun“, Whirlwind Project at MIT 9 1957: Lincoln TX-0 computer at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1964
Graphics Tablet
1963
Early Mouse
9 sketching new images or tracing old ones
9 1963: Douglas Engelbart, Stanford Research Institute
9 1964: RAND Tablet, ( Grafacon Graphic Converter)
9 one button on top and two wheels on the underside
9 1984: Koala Pad, first home computer graphics tablet
9 device with its long cable tail looked something like a mouse
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1972
Mechanical Mice
1980
9 1972: Bill English, ball mouse, part of the hardware package of the Xerox Alto computer
9 1980: Steve Kirsch, Mouse Systems Corporation, infrared light-emitting diodes and a four-quadrant infrared sensor
9 rubber or metal ball rotates in any direction 9 mechanical sensors detect the direction
1999
Optical Mouse 9 optical mouse sensor, developed by Agilent Technologies 9 a tiny camera takes thousands of pictures every second 9 most optical mice use a small, red light-emitting diode
References:
Optomechanical Mice 9 optical sensors detects motion of the ball
9 1981: Richard F. Lyon, 16-pixel visible-light image sensor with integrated motion detection, sold by Xerox
1998
Laser Mouse
9 1998 : Sun Microsystems 9 2004: Logitech with Agilent Technologies introduced MX 1000 9 infrared laser instead of an LED 9 wireless mouse
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