26 Mar
2016
26 Mar
'16
10:04 p.m.
I picked up a Model 37 (ASR) for nothing at one point. It was sitting in my kitchen and
amusingly it was probably the only terminal that I didn’t have to turn on the nl->crlf
mapping in terminal driver. It also handled all those ESC and SI/SO codes that nroff put
out for default to do partial line spacing and shifting from the normal roman to the greek
letter typebox. I also liked the fact that it used the full RS-232 modem control lines.
When the modem came online and asserted DSR it then turned on the motor. When carrier
detect came up a big green PROCEED light lit up. The paper tape unit was a huge side car
unlike the little integral one in the model 33. At 150 baud it was really more of a
curiosity at the point I had it.