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[Bill Cunningham]

    Did these old minis use a teletype or a monitor as stdout? The pictures
I've seen of them looks like they used a printout as stdout.

Bill

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[Kelli Halliburton]

On Sunday 11 June 2006 09:26 pm, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>     Did these old minis use a teletype or a monitor as stdout? The pictures
> I've seen of them looks like they used a printout as stdout.

V7 assumes a teletype and has little or no provision for anything else. There 
are retrofits for termcap and ncurses out there, though.

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[Frank Wortner]

Kelli Halliburton wrote
> V7 assumes a teletype and has little or no provision for anything else. 
>   
Having used it in "the good old days," I can only assure you that this 
was totally true.  I thought we were truly in heaven when we upgraded 
from 110 baud Teletypes to 1200 baud Decwriters!  My goodness, I feel 
really old just now.  :-)

Frank

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[Ian King]

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[Frank Wortner]

Ian King wrote:
> I remember reworking the serial card on a PDP-8/e to talk to a 2400 
> baud "glass teletype," f
Thanks for all the nostalgic comments.  Now I feel (a few months) 
younger.  :-)

Frank

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[Carl Lowenstein]

On 6/11/06, Frank Wortner <frank at wortner.com> wrote:
> Ian King wrote:
> > I remember reworking the serial card on a PDP-8/e to talk to a 2400
> > baud "glass teletype," f
> Thanks for all the nostalgic comments.  Now I feel (a few months)
> younger.  :-)
>

If you had ever attached a DEC VT05 (glass teletype) to your Sixth
Edition or Seventh Edition Unix system you would understand why the
Usenix monthly magazine is named ";login:".   The user prompt contains
escape sequences to control a model 37 Teletype, but the VT05 doesn't
respond to them, and in fact ignores the <esc> character and just
displays the semicolon and colon part of the escape sequences.

    carl
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    carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
                                                 clowenst at ucsd.edu

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[David Evans]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:11:07PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> If you had ever attached a DEC VT05 (glass teletype) to your Sixth
> Edition or Seventh Edition Unix system you would understand why the
> Usenix monthly magazine is named ";login:".   The user prompt contains
> escape sequences to control a model 37 Teletype, but the VT05 doesn't
> respond to them, and in fact ignores the <esc> character and just
> displays the semicolon and colon part of the escape sequences.
> 

  ISTR that 2.9BSD on the Pro 350 does this too.

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David Evans                                     dfevans at bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Research Associate                     http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge