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 Message 1513 
 Ed Vance to Kurt Weiske 
 Re: NetBSD 
 02 Dec 25 18:34:32 
 
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>  I used ASR-33 teletypes connected to Northern Telecom PBXes - it was
>  convenient being able to look at the paper scroll to see error messages
>  that had occurred.

>  I'd learned about how TTYs worked with UNIX, it was interesting to see
>  one in action - and to understand how line editors worked.

> --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
>  * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org | tomorrow's retro tech (1:218/1)


You wrote "line editors".
seeing that  made me recall the day the operator inthe computer room noticed me
watching the paper jumping up in the Line Printer and invited me in the room.
My thinking was there was a dot matrix head really flying forward and back at a
fantastic speed.
The operator raised the cover on the line printer to show me the chain of type
traveling in a circuit at high speed.
He also showed me a plug board that attacked ached to the IBM mainframe system.
This was in the mid-1960's long before I got interested in personal computers
and bought a C=64 in1984.
Ed
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