I used to run a western electric mod. 28 Teletype on the 20m Ham band. Rtty, what joy!
sent from my android! On Dec 7, 2010 8:34 AM, "marbux" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote: >> The only program I really miss from back then, besides Elite in the >> Commodore64, is DBase lll. >> The GUI has taken the fun , mystery, and the human component right out >> of the PC IMHO > > Agreed, although I'd add to the list of programs I miss WordStar, > particularly its keyboard layout and the keyboard layout's integrated > Help system. It was an inspired combination for rapid learning of the > keyboard layout. > > Sorry for suggesting that you might lack familiarity with WordPerfect. > > My own involvement with word processing dates to the late 1960s, when > the technology's first commercially successful implementation came in > the North American newspaper industry. My first career was typography. > At the time I encountered word processing, I worked at the third U.S. > newspaper that adopted computerized hyphenation and justification of > text, the Tucson Star. All done with 6-bit Teletypetter ("TTS") > punched paper tape in those days, an open telegraphy standard adopted > in 1928 for use by The Associated Press and its member publications. > > That was during the "embrace" phase. IBM and Compugraphic quickly > moved into the "extend" phase, adding a third code page to TTS to > translate a richer vocabulary of the handwritten "markup language" > that had evolved over the 500-year history of the printing trade into > machine processable code. (Proofreader's marks are a surviving remnant > of the original handwritten markup language.) Since then, I've never > again encountered competing but interoperable word processors based on > an open standard. That ended with the extension of TTS in the early > 1970s. > > Very nice online museum here of the state of electro-mechanical > newspaper typesetting technology just prior to the extension of TTS. > <http://gochipmunk.com/html/contents.html>. Includes more information > about TTS than any other site I've found on the Web. > > Well, I've rambled enough. Back to work. > > Best regards, > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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