[TUHS] Teletype simulator?

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Fri Mar 25 13:43:15 AEST 2016


On Friday, 25 March 2016 at 13:18:52 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, Warren Toomey wrote:
>
>> I thought it would be nice to get a feel for what it was like to use a
>> real tty; I only used glass ttys (ADM3a, VT100s and so on).
>
> My first time was the ASR-33 on the mighty PDP-8...

Here too.  And my co-student Dave Snell had prepared me for it: "You
won't *believe* how fast this thing (tty) is!"  Even then (30 October
1969, the day the first packet went over the ARPAnet) I was
underwhelmed.

Greg
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