@kenshirriff Crazy. Makes me think if the rack for the printer was settled in the mid 70s and no one thought it was worth fighting for a newer, lighter printer as delays pushed the first launch to 1981. I can totally see the NASA and the Rockwell-Boeing-Lockheed Martin guys saying, "sure it's heavy, but we have these things printing away in B-52s for decades now. It's been field tested."

*I'm spitballing that B-52s have these. But I do know that B-52s have text printers.