From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 16:48:43 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] NROFF & Model 37s In-Reply-To: <020201d3fe85$fbb2f070$f318d150$@ronnatalie.com> References: <020201d3fe85$fbb2f070$f318d150$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: rocky flats? Did you put a geiger counter near it :-) On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:36 AM Ron Natalie 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. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: