24 Aug
1998
24 Aug
'98
9:37 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
My first printer was a Model 15 connected to the cassette port of a
TRS-80 (Model One, but it wasn't called that yet) based on an article
in Kilobaud. We could get that bugger to make sense for as many as
five or six lines before it turned to gibberish.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
Bill Gates has this situation where the federal government wants him
convicted for attempting a monopoly. Has Bill considered responding
with a question as to why there's only one Justice Department?
Does anyone still have that classic cover from an
early issue of
Interface Age? The one where the programmer has just buried a fire axe
in an ASR-33 teletype.
Ouch!!!
That's one every TTY user can identify with, watching your listing
slowly crawl across the page at 10 CPS.
Not this TTY user (and for a time, an ASR33 was my only printer, and my only
serial terminal). I know that I'm the guy who'd have to fix the machine
next day, you see. And I have enough problem keeping it aligned with
undamaged original parts...