10 May
2000
10 May
'00
6:19 p.m.
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 02:54:48PM -0700, Chris Kennedy wrote:
- A system which required writing 5'4" 360K
floppies using a
5 foot 4 inch floppies? :-) You'd think they'd hold a lot more than
360K. LOL
As a consequence of this, most trading floors included
a bizarre
piece of hardware which -- you guessed it -- hammered the
keyboard with solenoid actuated fingers along with (then
quite pricy) OCR hardware to make sense of the stuff being puked
back by the exchange.
Gawd. Sounds like something out of _Brazil_.
I used to wonder when I was a kid if I could turn my Selectric into
a printer... would there be any shortcuts to controlling that ball, or
would it be necessary to use solenoids for every key. This was before
I knew that Selectrics had in fact been used as tty's back before my
time.
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