[tpm] [u-u] Return to the past. Re: Alarming Development

[Liam R E Quin]

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 12:04 -0400, Alex Beamish wrote:
> Here's a page with a photo of a Lear Siegler ADM-3A:
> 
>   http://www.linuxsoft.ro/wiki/administrare/tutorial-vi?s=asa

yay! We had those at University (1981) -- they replaced the
teletypes :D :D

You could open the little door to the left of the keyboard and
play with the DIP switches for parity & baud rate.

Emacs on those terminals was a pain -- e.g. ^S/^Q flow control
was needed, and no Meta key or function keys -- so it's just
as well I was a vi user :-)

Liam


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