From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael Kjörling" <e5655f30a07f@ewoof.net>, tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early Unix and Keyboard Skills
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 09:28:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2MeDUf7OwUymSPZ7XE56ENn88XoCC8TMaxSvdJjhD4ADA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgzm8fkT5SeAFf+uaesp-oti2UndDdTPiB8MRU3CPebfRw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 3:13 AM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote
> bwk was one who could smash out the text faster than many. His having
> learned on a teletype, the keyboard would resound with the impact of his
> forceful keystrokes.
>
Funny, I remember the first time I got to use something other than an ASR33
or an ASR28 sometime time in the early 1970s I think. IIRC It was a Tek
4010, but the memory at the time of being amazed that I did not need so
much energy to push the keys and how quiet it was. Before then I had
equated computing with the feel, sounds, and machine oil smells of Teletype
products. That said, when the VT52 came out in the mid-70s the DEC keyboard
on it was far from the feel of the IBM Selectric III - which was considered
the 'touch typist standard'
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-02 2:36 [TUHS] " steve jenkin
2022-11-02 6:53 ` [TUHS] " Michael Kjörling
2022-11-02 7:11 ` Rob Pike
2022-11-02 13:28 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2022-11-03 21:51 ` Stuff Received
2023-08-05 23:53 ` scj
2023-08-06 0:22 ` KenUnix
2023-08-06 0:43 ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-06 14:51 ` Leah Neukirchen
2023-08-06 15:01 ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-06 16:31 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-06 18:20 ` Jon Forrest
2023-08-07 4:56 ` Adam Thornton
2023-08-06 8:37 ` Ronald Natalie
2022-11-02 12:13 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-11-02 12:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-11-02 20:35 ` Ron Natalie
2022-11-02 12:26 ` John P. Linderman
2022-11-02 13:07 ` Larry Stewart
2022-11-02 13:16 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-02 13:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-11-02 19:01 ` jason-tuhs
2022-11-02 19:20 ` John P. Linderman
2022-11-03 1:47 ` Ronald Natalie
2022-11-03 1:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-03 3:01 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 15:17 ` Paul Winalski
2022-11-03 16:18 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 17:02 ` John Cowan
2022-11-03 19:36 ` Rich Morin
2022-11-03 20:01 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-11-02 12:16 Douglas McIlroy
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