2400 Baud Line Printer

2400 Baud Line Printer

2400 Baud Line Printer


2400 Baud Line Printer

2400 Baud Line Printer


Manufactured in 1973
Manufactured by Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd
Owner Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Location of historical materials 1-1 Tachita, Shono, Fukushima-shi, Fukushima, 960-2196, Japan
Visitor information Generally confidential (Consultation available)
Contact OKI Proserve Co., Ltd. Tel.+81-24-594-2251


This line printer was developed in 1966, when data transfer service started, as a terminal device with 1200 - 2400bps data transfer capability.

The print method was the Type Belt Method which was a unique and major technology by OKI, drawing on its achievements in output devices of computers. This printer had a hundred and twenty eight types in ISO code. It printed a hundred and fifty lines per minute and each one line had a hundred and thirty two characters. A size of the mechanism area was reduced to the utmost limit. Instead of an expensive core memory, a magnetostrictive delay line for the memory unit was used for the control area. In addition, a single motor which drove the belt, fed paper and drove ink ribbon, brought cost reductions in the drive line. This product was introduced as a line printer, achieving epoch-making low costs, small size and user-friendliness. It made characters visible immediately after they were printed out and enabled printed sheet to be cut off after a few lines. Communication with a host computer through a modem enabled the device to detect and correct an error by vertical parity check of received codes and horizontal parity check of a block of codes.

This printer was one of OKI’sour best-selling products used by a large number of computer manufacturers as the terminal for data transfer device, as well as output device for the financial market and minicomputers.