Gould 5200

The Gould 5200 was an electrostatic printer introduced in 1975, succeeding the Gould 5100 plotter. It used a an 11"-wide roll of special dielectric-coated paper. The output was a 200 DPI raster, much like the XGP; it took 5 seconds to print a page.

At MIT, one such printer was associated with the MIT-MC KL10. The supporting software accepted all the XGP file formats. According to archived files, it seems to have been connected first to the IO-11 front end. Later it was moved to the Plasma Group in MIT Building 38 and connected to another PDP-11 with was also the hub for several terminals there. The connection back to MC was first a serial line, but later replaced with Chaosnet; the printer was available at the "GOULD" contact.

External links

• Investigations of Interlibrary Resource-Sharing Networks - contains a detailed description of the operation of the 5200