From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tytso at mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 14:22:01 -0500 Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature In-Reply-To: References: <20201106014109.GP26296@mcvoy.com> <175409f6-af94-601e-3db3-a5af5d7f64d0@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20201106192201.GM1750809@mit.edu> 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