17 Aug
2001
17 Aug
'01
11:06 a.m.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, John Allain wrote:
ASR
Selectric
Silent 700 (maybe it was a different portable printing terminal
with built-in acoustic modem that a friend was using in 1970)
all preceded CRT.
Mixed text and graphics?
We had a special typeball that we used on Selectric (mostly with
APL) for drawing graphs.
Option cards?
How about type balls
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
How do you
define 'terminal'?
RS232 or Current loop comm.