Yes, well, some of us remember using a punch card and a knitting needle.
You stabbed the card bundle somewhere along the edge with the knitting
needle, shook the deck, and the ones that fell out were the ones you
wanted. More sophisticated systems used two knitting needles, which was
the upper limit unless you wanted to involve other members of staff.
Roger Shuttleworth
London, Canada
On 14/02/2013 9:12 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:41:28 -0800, "Combs, Richard"
<richard.co...@polycom.com> wrote:
All the geezers who cut their teeth on
VT-100s may now begin reminiscing.
My first one was an ASR-33 TTY. Really.
Rolls of paper and UPPER-CASE ONLY. 110
baud, which gave you 10 characters per
second. The Hazeltine "glass teletype"
was a great improvement, at 300 baud, no
paper, and real lower-case. 80 x 25,
but the bottom line was its own status.
The reason for 80, BTW, was that is the
capacity of a keypunch card. Used them
too.
The VT-100 was *much* later. ;-)
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
<jer...@omsys.com> http://mif2go.com/
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