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 Message 1517 
 Ed Vance to Mortar M. 
 Re: NetBSD 
 04 Dec 25 11:41:22 
 
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>   Re: Re: NetBSD
>   By: Ed Vance to Kurt Weiske on Tue Dec 02 2025 18:40:35

> A reasonable assumption.  Actually, the first commercially available DMP
> debuted in 1968 by the Oki (later Okidata) company out of Japan.  It wasn't
> until 1970 when DEC came out with their first.

> I used an ASR-33 back when I was in my college's amateur radio club.  I loved
> that thing.  When you typed on it, you felt like you were doing something
> special.
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The only ASR-33 that I have seen was behind a window in a building I walked by
one day. That was the first time I saw 8 level Perf Tape .
When I was in the Navy at a Navy Base I learned to use a Model 28 KSR, loved
it!
Ed W9ODR . .
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