On 02/08/2019 05:19 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > These days people can laugh at the UNIX concept of connecting > typewriters but in the lexicon of the 60's the typewriter was the > person and the typwriting machine was the compositing device. Gotta > love hacker humor tho.
Back when I got into the business, Teletype machines were used for the console. When I first started working for CN Telecommunications (later CNCP & Unitel) I was a bench tech, overhauling Teletypes. A few years later I became a computer tech, working with minicomputers. I spent a lot of time watching long paper tapes running through the tape reader, loading software into the computers. Then, with the VAX 11/780, the console became an LSI-11 computer (microprocessor version of PDP-11), which could be switched between console mode and user terminal, with the STP (Switch Terminal Program) command. The LSI-11 was used for, among other things, loading the VAX microcode from 8" floppies. --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
