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From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Teletype simulator?
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:43:15 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160325034315.GF3766@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1603251306040.15730@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Friday, 25 March 2016 at 13:18:52 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, Warren Toomey wrote:
>
>> I thought it would be nice to get a feel for what it was like to use a
>> real tty; I only used glass ttys (ADM3a, VT100s and so on).
>
> My first time was the ASR-33 on the mighty PDP-8...

Here too.  And my co-student Dave Snell had prepared me for it: "You
won't *believe* how fast this thing (tty) is!"  Even then (30 October
1969, the day the first packet went over the ARPAnet) I was
underwhelmed.

Greg
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-25  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-23 19:28 [TUHS] PDP-7 Unix: The B compiler works Warren Toomey
2016-03-23 22:02 ` Dario Niedermann
2016-03-24  6:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-24  9:01 ` [TUHS] Teletype simulator? Warren Toomey
2016-03-24 10:21   ` Pierre DAVID
2016-03-24 11:00     ` Clem cole
2016-03-24 11:01       ` Clem cole
2016-03-24 21:39       ` Clem Cole
2016-03-25  3:18         ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-03-25  3:57           ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-25 20:13             ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-03-24 16:37   ` Jacob Goense
2016-03-25  2:18   ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-25  3:43     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2016-03-25  5:59     ` Jacob Goense
2016-03-24 13:19 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-24 14:23 ` Random832
2016-03-24 16:41   ` Jacob Goense
2016-03-24 14:28 ` Lawrence Stewart
2016-03-25 21:27   ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-25 21:56     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-03-28 12:04       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-03-24 14:40 ` George Ross
2016-03-24 15:29   ` Random832
2016-03-24 15:32   ` John Cowan
2016-03-24 16:15   ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-03-24 20:29     ` scj
2016-03-25 12:54       ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-26 21:04       ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-24 19:56 ` scj
2016-03-24 13:36 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-24 20:12 Norman Wilson
2016-03-24 20:24 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-03-24 20:36 ` scj

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