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

[Tom Legrady]

I do remember a Cosmac VIP (RCA 1802 ... I think it had PDP op code )  
single board thing I had around 1979, where I entered machine language  
programs into all 256 bytes of memory one hex digit at a time.  I used  
it to create some "computer graphics" which we used at VideoCabaret in  
our production of "1984"


On 15-Oct-08, at 12:04 PM, 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
>
> I used one of those on my Co-op jobs and first graduate job. The
> terminal opened up from the front, and inside was a massive (18" by
> 12") PCB with perhaps a hundred IC DIPs. 25 lines, 80 columns, and
> bloody heavy.
>
> Numeric keypad? Nope. Alt key? Nope.
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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