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From: tytso at mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 14:22:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201106192201.GM1750809@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2N0KbsZ4URqruuPnfvaOvnCTrxU9tr+PRqHk_keVSQxdQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:53:59AM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> 
> I went to college with an electric typewriter and all my papers were done
> on it in the fall of my freshman year (until I got access to UNIX).  I did
> have an CS account for the PDP-10 and they had the XGP, but using it for
> something like your papers was somewhat frowned upon.    However, the UNIX
> boxes we often bought 'daisy wheel' typewriters that had RS-232C
> interfaces.  Using nroff, I could then do my papers and run it off in the
> admin's desk at night.

When I was in high school, we had a box that could be fitted over an
Olivetti electric typewriter's keyboard, which had solenoids to
"type".  The other end had a parallel port and it was connected to a
Heathkit H-89 CP/M system, and so rough drafts would be sent to the
dot matrix printer, but for the final copy, it could look like it came
out of a typewriter --- because technically, it did.  :-)

       	 	    		- Ted


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06 19:22 UTC|newest]

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2020-11-06 17:56           ` clemc
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2020-11-06 23:08           ` grog
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2020-11-07  0:16             ` dave
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2020-11-06 15:53             ` clemc
2020-11-06 19:22               ` tytso [this message]
2020-11-06 19:24                 ` clemc
2020-11-06 22:58               ` grog
2020-11-07 21:04                 ` clemc
2020-11-07 23:05                   ` dave
2020-11-09  4:36                   ` [COFF] Daisy wheel printers (was: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature) grog
2020-11-09 14:26                     ` clemc
2020-11-10  0:10                       ` grog
2020-11-10 14:48                         ` clemc
2020-11-10 15:10                           ` stewart
2020-11-09 22:08                     ` dave
2020-11-10  0:48                       ` grog
     [not found]             ` <202011061546.0A6Fkv3D034443@elf.torek.net>
2020-11-06 16:22               ` [COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature clemc
2020-11-06 18:12                 ` torek
2020-11-07  2:52                 ` cym224
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     [not found]                 ` <20201106232901.AkY2I%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
2020-11-07  4:22                   ` grog
2020-11-07 20:31                     ` steffen
2020-11-11  8:31           ` [COFF] " peter
2020-11-11 12:21             ` tih
2020-11-11 21:09             ` dave

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