-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/08 19:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:17:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> I'm really gettin' old! >> Have you yet bitched and complained how kids today have it so much >> easier, and don't appreciate what they have? > > I'm getting a new-to-me dot-matrix printer (Epson LQ-2080) delivered > tomorrow. Next week I expect a VT-520. I wonder how many VT-520s a > modern computer could support?
Directly attached via a serial multi-port card, or via an Ethernet terminal server? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECserver > When people had terminals instead of > computers on their desks, how big was a computer with 2 GB ram and 500 > GB hard drive space and the power of a modern CPU (e.g. Athlon64)? The last time I had an actual real-live VT220 on my desk was 1991. Connected via LAT to a DECserver and then a VAXcluster, consisting of a VAX 8600 & VAX 8800, each with 64MB RAM. Don't remember the disk space, because the database was in a ShareBase/Britton-Lee machine. Each was at least a full rack. 2GB RAM would have used a simply enormous number of DIP RAM chips. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Area_Transport > Then again, I tried to find an off-the-shelf good quality simple PS/2 > keyboard today with no luck. I want quality but without the noise of an > IBM model M. > > Times change. And we old-timers get to complain about wasteful, unappreciative youth... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables!" unknown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHl/NiS9HxQb37XmcRAnzyAJ9mz7BmuX1fEKgDSVglFTEboBAR1wCfdOUB kiSCzzFpDYoC6Cp8avPBKqE= =MhYA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
