On Monday 29 October 2001 03:48 pm, James wrote:
> I remember checking out from the CS dept a tty with an acoustic coupler at
> 110 baud (must have been about 1973/74).  We used to have to be careful
> when we put it in the cradle, otherwise the background noise would confuse
> it.  I was supposed to be programming in Fortran on the PDP-11, but I found
> it much more fun to play Star Trek.  The tty weighed a lot, but the box of
> paper you carried definitely kept the whole thing from being considered
> portable :)
>
... snip ...

 Ahh.. The sound of a KSR33 Teletype machine-gunning text onto paper at 
100cps (ALL UPPER CASE OF COURSE...) The smell of freshly-punched oiled paper 
tape scrolling out onto the floor. 

 That's at least two sensory outputs missing from modern computing  =:o)



					-=[ Steve ]=-