[COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature

[Clem Cole]

Outstanding hack!

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 2:22 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:53:59AM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> >
> > I went to college with an electric typewriter and all my papers were done
> > on it in the fall of my freshman year (until I got access to UNIX).  I
> did
> > have an CS account for the PDP-10 and they had the XGP, but using it for
> > something like your papers was somewhat frowned upon.    However, the
> UNIX
> > boxes we often bought 'daisy wheel' typewriters that had RS-232C
> > interfaces.  Using nroff, I could then do my papers and run it off in the
> > admin's desk at night.
>
> When I was in high school, we had a box that could be fitted over an
> Olivetti electric typewriter's keyboard, which had solenoids to
> "type".  The other end had a parallel port and it was connected to a
> Heathkit H-89 CP/M system, and so rough drafts would be sent to the
> dot matrix printer, but for the final copy, it could look like it came
> out of a typewriter --- because technically, it did.  :-)
>
>                                 - Ted
>
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