[TUHS] Teletypes used for early Unix

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Jul 30 10:56:10 AEST 2025


On Wed, 30 Jul 2025, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> "The remote-batch load absorbs about 5 per cent of the 11/70 and its 
> residual capacity is used to serve nearly 50 interactive terminals. 
> (Most of these are CRTs running at 2400 baud, that have been built 
> in-house to our own design; each incorporates a high-quality CRT display 
> and keyboard, and supports full ASCII 96 character set, and a graphics 
> mode)."

The Serge terminal was quite nice (heaps better than the Aussie 
"Transdata" ones that we also used at the time); they had a switch on the 
front which took it offline (by dropping CD?), and it made for a handy 
scroll-lock, and so likely used hardware flow control?

-- Dave


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