5 Apr
1998
5 Apr
'98
10:42 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
It is a VAXstation 3100 m30, however based on earlier
posts, and some close
examination of the external socket (it looks like it's never had a
terminator). I went ahead and gave it a try. It's chugging along nicely
behind me right now, and I had it up most of last night. The only problem
I've had so far was hitting the CTRL-S on the VT420 and locking it up (this
was only a problem because I didn't realize I'd done it so I didn't do the
CTRL-Q).
That was a problem I had back when I was teaching Xenix operations to
Tandy customers -- how to connect some control codes to the real world.
My usual mnemonic for my students was "Ctrl-S meand stop, Ctrl-Q means
Qontinue. (If only the ancients had swapped the functions of Ctrl-C
and Ctrl-Q, in which it would have been a simple Continue or Quit --
much easier for brain damaged students to remember).
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_