[TUHS] Teletype simulator?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Mar 25 22:54:52 AEST 2016


On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, scj at yaccman.com wrote:

> The other TTY story that surfaced happened to Dennis.  He had one of the 
> last model 37's as his home terminal, and it was getting quirky.  The 
> vibration of the mechanism occasionally caused a blank space to be 
> generated that he hadn't typed.  In those days, it was common to delete 
> the .o files after compiling because disc space was precious.  So Dennis 
> typed "rm *.o" and Unix replied ".o not found".

Ah; an oldie but a goodie...  And who hasn't done that?  To this day, I 
still check the "rm ..." command before hitting CR, 30 or so years later.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."



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