Steve Horejsi <shorejsi at skypoint.com> writes: > 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) That *amazingly* long, stiff, key travel, with the mechanical interlock preventing more than one key going down at once. I remember typing in assembler source code (PDP-8) where (because of expansion of tabs to spaces) I'd sometimes be half a page ahead of the echo. And now I don't remember the difference between "ASR33" and "KSR33". I remember the ones I used (which should include at least one Steve used, too) as ASR, but that could just be wrong. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / Ghugle: the Fannish Ghod of Queries Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/