28 Aug
2004
28 Aug
'04
10:58 p.m.
At 09:22 PM 8/28/2004, you wrote:
You'll find this shocking coming from a big HP
fan... but...
I can't stand the keyboard layout on the ubiquitous 700/96 terminal. That's
probably why I don't use my D220 server much.
Don't know anything about HP computers.
But I marvelled years ago at guys programming on an HP1000.
Their terminals had a rotary switch for baud rate at the upper left.
To freeze a listing that was scrolling by on their terminal,
they'd !quick! roll the switch to 0 baud or something, then !quick! roll it
back.
What a kludge compared to Xon/Xoff ^S ^Q that decent terminals like the
VT52/VT100 used. :-)
They had a stack of keyboards, guess they wore the switches out.
Ed