Re: OT: Flamebait: Text vs HTML email
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 02:15, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 02:05:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 01:05, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 02:24:03PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > > > Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
> > Some thoughts...
> >
> > ASCII terminals that didn't have an 80 column mode just didn't
> > survive.
>
> Rough history:
>
> PUNCH CARD -> TELETYPE (Tape) -> ASCII TERMINAL (Like VT-100)
> 80 80
Doesn't "everyone" know that? Or am I aging myself?
Does anyone know when Teletypes came around? I know they
were using 5-bit baudot "bytes" back in the 50's.
Tangent: when I first got my KayPro II, I could figure out
that CON: was console & LPT: was for the line printer, but
it took some time till I saw that PUN: and RDR: were for
the paper tape mechanism on the ASR-33... (Now _that_
statement aged me.)
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