From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 10:58:10 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] OK, no more 80 cols please In-Reply-To: References: <20171111212322.GA20429@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20171112105810.DDF451F952@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Hi Dave, > the ADM-3a was certainly one of my favourites Mine too; my first. Spent longer with the ADM 11 though, after it, including an amber model, rather than the vulgar green. I ended up in France a few years later with some Silicon Graphics machines, but not enough of them for the planned Mongolian hoard. I suggested serial terminals, like the old days, a batch of redundant ones were sent over the Channel, and there was my old amber one, that I promptly reclaimed. > there was something about the keyboard layout that just screamed out > "Unix". Bill Joy used an ADM 3A when writing vi. That gave hjkl for cursor movement because they were the cursor keys on the 3A. And `~' shares with HOME so I guess he used it for writing csh too. :-) > The *worst* terminal I've ever had to use was the VT-220 and its > clones Yes, awful. The guy I faced over the desk had one and used VMS; they suited one another. Not the guy, the terminal and OS. It did mean he could provide access to nethack though. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy