On 09/08/2018 03:57 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > My first TTY was the DECwriter II. My first terminal was a Beehive > BH100. I hacked together some TECO to support it on a local > vi/emacs/EDT-like visual mode editor... IIRC, the escape sequences were > put into specific numbered registers as TECO macros. A poor man's curses > in the mid 70's.... I thought it was super cool until I discovered emacs > at school on our 11/750... >
Before I got real disks on my MITS box, I used a Techtran dual-deck paper tape simulator as storage (one deck read-only, the other read/write and block searchable) and the Beehive as a rudimentary word processor. Read up a page, edit offline, and then hit "Transmit". Early CPT word processors worked in a similar manner. IIRC, the Super Bee used an 8008 and a whole mess of shift registers for storage. --Chuck