30 Jul
2025
30 Jul
'25
12:56 a.m.
On Wed, 30 Jul 2025, Jonathan Gray wrote:
"The remote-batch load absorbs about 5 per cent
of the 11/70 and its
residual capacity is used to serve nearly 50 interactive terminals.
(Most of these are CRTs running at 2400 baud, that have been built
in-house to our own design; each incorporates a high-quality CRT display
and keyboard, and supports full ASCII 96 character set, and a graphics
mode)."
The Serge terminal was quite nice (heaps better than the Aussie
"Transdata" ones that we also used at the time); they had a switch on the
front which took it offline (by dropping CD?), and it made for a handy
scroll-lock, and so likely used hardware flow control?
-- Dave