The 1403 had a variety of chains and chain slugs available.

How to have the print controller selects which slug to hammer for which character configuration in memory is a task for another day.

1403 World Trade Fonts

1403 Special Fonts

1403 German Fonts

A Sample of our German 1403's fonts.

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Bill Worthington says

"Remember that international character sets -- like Katakana -- were not available for the 1401. They appeared when the 1403 attached to the System/360 and could use EBCDIC to represent them. Remember that there were only 48 characters for the 1416 when the 1403 is attached to a 1401. -- 26 upper case letters, numbers 0-9, and the rest were special characters. International characters like "£" could be substituted for the "$", but it was on a replacement basis.

"See IBM 1403 Printer Component Description (A24-3073)." (8 megabytes)

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