[TUHS] Teletypes used for early Unix

[sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au]

Explaining John’s comment.

I requested some reports from UNSW Archives in 2021.
This one, by Keith Titmus in 2000, was a short history of Prof Murray Allen,
who'd hired John Lions and Ken Robinson in 1972.

	08_224_01 MW Allen_Keith-Titmus_2000

There were some Decwriters at UNSW, but mainly ’Serge’ Terminals in 1978.
Designed and built by the local staff (Serge P).

They were in use for 12 years.
The paint wore off the cabinets, 
but they’d bought expensive ‘hall effect’ keyboards for them and they kept on and on…

Elsewhere:
	In 1976, "UNSW, by end of year, boasted 200 registered users" on their Unix system.

> On 30 Jul 2025, at 00:11, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
> 
> When John Lions was at Bell Labs on sabbatical:
> 
> "Up till now I have been using a tty 43 (this listing)
> ...
> there is a noticeable preponderance of hard copy and lack of CRT terminals."
> John Lions, 15 August 1978
> AUUGN Vol 1, No 1, p 21


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In 1972, Murray was involved with the design of VISICOM, an ME thesis by Serge Poplavsky.

In 1976 Murray directed the building of 50 terminals for the newly created computing facilities. 
The first terminal laboratories were the forerunner of the computer laboratories that are now existent. 
The initial batch of terminals were a hard wired construction, 
while the next batch of 25 used an early version of microprocessor - the Motorola MC6802, 
and the third terminal version used the Motorola MC6809.

The terminals were in use until the first workstations, 
the Apollo using the Motorola MC68020 microprocessor, 
began replacing them in 1988.

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