[COFF] "On designing finger-friendly interactions" article at aresluna.org

Tony Patti via COFF coff at tuhs.org
Mon Jun 22 10:09:57 AEST 2026


> Even a 3101 at 1200 baud emulating a 3270 full screen half duplex could be an efficient environment.
> 
> Charlie

My first lines of code were typed on a Teletype Model 33 ASR—110 baud, 10 characters per second, and a noisy acoustic coupler connecting me to a remote HP 2000 timesharing system 
(because, you know, computers were big and expensive back then, to be shared).

Five decades later, I still fondly remember the rhythm of that machine. It’s been a long road from those paper-tape loops to the cryptosystems I work on today.

Tony Patti
https://cryptosystemsjournal.com/ 



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