From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich)
Subject: [TUHS] NROFF & Model 37s
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 16:48:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYJsurH5NfhDbKTbi6H5GD1MTALtJNVaduC6w2KELk5L2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <020201d3fe85$fbb2f070$f318d150$@ronnatalie.com>
rocky flats? Did you put a geiger counter near it :-)
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:36 AM Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> Hopkins had a KSR37 that was our standard word processing output for a
> long time before the daisy wheel printers started showing up.
> It even had the "greek box" so when eqn or whatever wanted that, it just
> sent shift-in/shift-out (control-n, -o). Years later I managed to pick
> up a surplus ASR37 from Rocky Flats. I had it in my kitchen for years on
> a modem. It was great fun to have one of the few terminals that nroff
> would send all those ESC-8/9 things for the vertical positioning without
> needing an output filter. No greek box, though. It also had a giant
> NEWLINE key and didn't need to have the nl mode turned on. Amusingly the
> thing would sit there quiet until the modem was powered up and then DSR
> ready would bring it to life. When CD came up an giant green PROCEED
> light illuminated above the keyboard. The paper tape unit was a monster
> side car. I never got around to programming the "here-is" drum.
>
> I think RS took it and left it behind someone's car at one as a practical
> joke.
>
>
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