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

[Indy Singh]

You had PROMS!!! We had to use ferrite core memory.

Punch cards were invented in 1881, PROMS were invented in 1956.

Indy Singh
IndigoSTAR Software -- www.indigostar.com


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Fowle 
  To: tpm at to.pm.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:07 AM
  Subject: Re: [tpm] [u-u] Return to the past. Re: Alarming Development


  Is burning PROMs by hand before or after punch cards?

   

   


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  From: toronto-pm-bounces+mfowle=navicominc.com at pm.org [mailto:toronto-pm-bounces+mfowle=navicominc.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of Indy Singh
  Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:58 AM
  To: Fulko Hew; tpm at to.pm.org
  Subject: Re: [tpm] [u-u] Return to the past. Re: Alarming Development

   

  You had keys!!!

   

  I had to punch the holes directly into the cards.  I can't understand all the fuss about a return key...  All you had to do was throw in a new card.

   

   


  Indy Singh
  IndigoSTAR Software -- www.indigostar.com

   

   

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: Fulko Hew 

    To: tpm at to.pm.org 

    Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:50 AM

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

     

     

    On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:

     

        Seriously there's been no "Return" key
        since terminals stopped having carriages.


      Macs have always had a Return key, and so did many glass TTYs, including the Televideo models that I once used:
      http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/tvi955kbd.gif


    Gosh... I remember those things, and Lear Siegler too...
    You had a return key!!! ... I had to use Control M and Control J...
    You had Control M and Control J, I had to use Baudot, they didn't have a control key...
    But at least Baudot had a shift key...

     


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