24 Mar
2005
24 Mar
'05
9:35 p.m.
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:28:16 -0600, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
David V. Corbin wrote:
> It STILL takes the same amount of time for a system to boot..
Yep... a 30 cps printer still takes minutes to belch out the startup
text for VMS and/or UNIX...
(I used to keep about 6 LA36s and LA100s loaded with paper and ribbons
for various machines we had at work... I was glad when we no longer
cared about a paper record and switched to VT100s at a higher baud
rate).
-ethan