12 Nov
2017
12 Nov
'17
4:58 p.m.
Hi Dave,
the ADM-3a was certainly one of my favourites
Mine too; my first. Spent longer with the ADM 11 though, after it,
including an amber model, rather than the vulgar green. I ended up in
France a few years later with some Silicon Graphics machines, but not
enough of them for the planned Mongolian hoard. I suggested serial
terminals, like the old days, a batch of redundant ones were sent over
the Channel, and there was my old amber one, that I promptly reclaimed.
there was something about the keyboard layout that
just screamed out
"Unix".
Bill Joy used an ADM 3A when writing vi. That gave hjkl for cursor
movement because they were the cursor keys on the 3A. And `~' shares
with HOME so I guess he used it for writing csh too. :-)
The *worst* terminal I've ever had to use was the
VT-220 and its
clones
Yes, awful. The guy I faced over the desk had one and used VMS; they
suited one another. Not the guy, the terminal and OS. It did mean he
could provide access to nethack though.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy