[TUHS] OK, no more 80 cols please
Ralph Corderoy
ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Sun Nov 12 20:58:10 AEST 2017
Hi Dave,
> the ADM-3a was certainly one of my favourites
Mine too; my first. Spent longer with the ADM 11 though, after it,
including an amber model, rather than the vulgar green. I ended up in
France a few years later with some Silicon Graphics machines, but not
enough of them for the planned Mongolian hoard. I suggested serial
terminals, like the old days, a batch of redundant ones were sent over
the Channel, and there was my old amber one, that I promptly reclaimed.
> there was something about the keyboard layout that just screamed out
> "Unix".
Bill Joy used an ADM 3A when writing vi. That gave hjkl for cursor
movement because they were the cursor keys on the 3A. And `~' shares
with HOME so I guess he used it for writing csh too. :-)
> The *worst* terminal I've ever had to use was the VT-220 and its
> clones
Yes, awful. The guy I faced over the desk had one and used VMS; they
suited one another. Not the guy, the terminal and OS. It did mean he
could provide access to nethack though.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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