On Monday 29 October 2001 03:48 pm, James wrote: > I remember checking out from the CS dept a tty with an acoustic coupler at > 110 baud (must have been about 1973/74). We used to have to be careful > when we put it in the cradle, otherwise the background noise would confuse > it. I was supposed to be programming in Fortran on the PDP-11, but I found > it much more fun to play Star Trek. The tty weighed a lot, but the box of > paper you carried definitely kept the whole thing from being considered > portable :) > ... snip ... Ahh.. The sound of a KSR33 Teletype machine-gunning text onto paper at 100cps (ALL UPPER CASE OF COURSE...) The smell of freshly-punched oiled paper tape scrolling out onto the floor. That's at least two sensory outputs missing from modern computing =:o) -=[ Steve ]=-