* Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080529 23:28]: ... > Actually, it dates back further than that, to ASR33 teletype machines, > where you needed to issue separate carriage return and line feed > characters to end a line - to i) physically return the carriage to the > beginning of the line, and ii) feed a line of paper (turn the platten). > (Anybody else out there old enough to remember when ASR33s where THE > standard i/o device? :-)
Back about 1967, the ASR33 was coveted by those of us whose only means of input and output was the 80-column punch card. "Output?", you say? Yes. For printed output, you put the deck of output cards into the card hopper of the line printer -- the chassis of which was a cube about four feet on a side. But inasmuch as the printer broke down on a daily basis, you quickly learned to read the holes in the cards. I speak of the days of Fortran-II running on an IBM 1620. Back then, it often was necessary to load the compiler (another deck of punched cards) before loading the application. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
