On Friday, 25 March 2016 at 13:18:52 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, Warren Toomey wrote:
I thought it would be nice to get a feel for what
it was like to use a
real tty; I only used glass ttys (ADM3a, VT100s and so on).
My first time was the ASR-33 on the mighty PDP-8...
Here too. And my co-student Dave Snell had prepared me for it: "You
won't *believe* how fast this thing (tty) is!" Even then (30 October
1969, the day the first packet went over the ARPAnet) I was
underwhelmed.
Greg
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