Kent A. Reed wrote: > <old-fart reminiscence on> > > When I started poking at Unix, "glass" terminals were just beginning to > replace the venerable Teletype. The only way we could multitask was to > get artful with the background/foreground commands.
You mean you got hard copy back as you typed? I seem to recall submitting punch cards sets and waiting for a printout later ... and then adjusting the cards to fix the faults :) But it was a lot easier that splicing the paper tape for the tape reader. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
