I used keypunches in college. I then graduated to a hardcopy terminal, but not a KSR-33 or ASR-33. The school had some really nice DECWriters for the non-IBM DEC System 20. And 2741s for the IBM. I adored the 2741s, which were basically an IBM Selectric typewriter with a serial interface. In college, we didn't use TSO. We used Wylber. It as actually a very nice system. Especially compared to punching cards (which often required punching out some other student who was keying in their program as they were developing it) and looking a paper output.
I actually did use an ASR-33 (KSR-33 with paper tape attachment) at TCU (Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, TX) connected to some other computer in my senior high school year. Now that was a literal pain to key with. Talk about "hitting" the keys. That monster had very stiff keys and a long stroke to activate them. On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Quasar Chunawala < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Today, the mainframe staff in any enterprise work on PC running special > software(the terminal emulator) to connect to the *mainframe server* over > the company intranet. But, back in the 1960's, when mainframes were young, > what were some of input devices? Has anyone typed TSO or compiled programs > on a tele-typewriter model 33? What was it like to work on a key-punch > machine? How was the experience? I suppose, 3278 terminals were introduced > much later by IBM. > > Quasar. > http://in.linkedin.com/pub/quasar-chunawala/20/164/133/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
