From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: earl.baugh@gmail.com (Earl Baugh) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:25:21 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Anyone know what a LANTERN is In-Reply-To: References: <201707301114.v6UBEEmc029284@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: I'll take any sound vs. the "visual bell" flash that I had on the first terminal I used to learn VI on. Had I had epilepsy like my sister, I'd have never survived :-) Earl On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:52 AM, ron minnich wrote: > >> ah, on the vt52, that "bell" was called the "feep". It sure was not a >> bell., >> >> The vt52 was a real money saving device. From what we could tell, the >> printed circuit board on it was cardboard. >> > > On the VT52 terminals I used, the bell seemed to come in two flavors. One > was a very iconic "gear grinding" sound where there was a small motor that > spun a toothed wheel that ran over a slender finger of plastic. A few, > maybe retrofitted, had what sounded like a random 555 noise that was gated > on/off. > > Warner > > >> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:51 AM Paul Winalski >> wrote: >> >>> On 7/30/17, Alec Muffett wrote: >>> > Dumb question: is there any chance that just as BEL goes , >>> perhaps >>> > LAMP illuminated a red warning light or similar? >>> >>> BEL *did* ring a bell on the model 33 Teletype. On the DEC VT52, it >>> sounded a buzzer that was sort of like an electronic raspberry. On >>> the VT100, LA36, and other later terminals, it was the familiar feep >>> sound. >>> >>> The character we're discussing here was named LANTERN, not LAMP, but >>> you may have something there regarding it turning on a light. We'd >>> need to find an AT&T 4410 terminal, or someone who's used one, to be >>> sure. >>> >>> -Paul W. >>> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: