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.combs at 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. > <jeremy at omsys.com> http://mif2go.com/ > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as shuttie27 at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/shuttie27%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
