1 Feb
2018
1 Feb
'18
10:01 a.m.
Hi Eric,
I know it sounds snarky, and admittedly my sample size
is small, but it
seems to me that it was quite _rarely_ used as a console printer in place
of a LA36. Of the DEC machine rooms I saw back in the day (DECsystem-10,
PDP-11, VAX-11/7xx), most used an LA36 or LA120 as the console terminal,
but I also saw one Teletype Model 43 and one VT52. (It was not good
practice to use a CRT as the system console, IMO.)
I worked in the Multivendor Environment so DEC (OEM 11's) so DEC terminals weren't
that common there and when we first started using it I don't think we had access the
LA120 (here in the UK at least!)
However, a scan of the SuperTerm maintenance manual
definitely would be
good to archive for posterity.
Do you know were or how is the best place to send the scan (sorry this is my first post)?
Regards Mike Norris