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From: stewart@serissa.com (Lawrence Stewart)
Subject: [TUHS] Teletype simulator?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:28:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8AF184E8-FA2F-4CA9-A094-C0EAFF1C35A6@serissa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160324131926.41FF518C0ED@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

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And the keyboard locks!  You cannot press a key unless the machine has finished transmitting the 
previous key.  “two key rollover” was a great advance in its day.
-L


> On 2016, Mar 24, at 9:19 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> From: Warren Toomey
> 
>> I thought it would be nice to get a feel for what it was like to use a
>> real tty
> 
> Make sure it only prints 10 characters per second, then. (I think TTY's were
> 10 cps?) R-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w.
> 
> 	Noel



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-24 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-24 20:12 Norman Wilson
2016-03-24 20:24 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-03-24 20:36 ` scj
2016-03-24 13:36 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-23 19:28 [TUHS] PDP-7 Unix: The B compiler works Warren Toomey
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
2016-03-25  5:59     ` Jacob Goense

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