On 12/17/09 8:56 AM, Kevin Golding wrote:
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I had an ASR 33 teletype with an Anderson Jacobs 110 baud coupler. We
dialed into an 800 number owned by tymenet (an X.25 pad).
had to hit the ^p on the keyboard after it stopped screaming into the
coupler.
it took ATT (in 1970) two months to engineer a phone line from the CO
that would stand up to the rigors of 110 baud.
(and I might have been the one to have written one of the original ST
games. I still have the paper tape and printout of the source)
It started its life on an SDS940 somewhere in Texas, running 'UBASIC'
(university of maryland basic).
Ended up on a Sperry Univac that was jointly owned by Florida Atlantic
University and Florida International University.
I used to skip class (11th grade in high school) to hang out in the
basement of the FAU admin building and work on the program.
new 'glass tubes' came in. we convinced the computer science majors
that 'CRT' meant 'Computer Readout Tube'. and, yes, the two most
popular programs that ran on the new 'calcom plotter' were a pinup of
marilyn monroe and lucy (pregnant) yelling 'You blockhead charlie brown')
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