2 Nov
2022
2 Nov
'22
7:28 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 3:13 AM Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote
bwk was one who could smash out the text faster than
many. His having
learned on a teletype, the keyboard would resound with the impact of his
forceful keystrokes.
Funny, I remember the first time I got to use something other than an ASR33
or an ASR28 sometime time in the early 1970s I think. IIRC It was a Tek
4010, but the memory at the time of being amazed that I did not need so
much energy to push the keys and how quiet it was. Before then I had
equated computing with the feel, sounds, and machine oil smells of Teletype
products. That said, when the VT52 came out in the mid-70s the DEC keyboard
on it was far from the feel of the IBM Selectric III - which was considered
the 'touch typist standard'
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