You have not lived until you have used a Texas Instruments Silent 700 at 300 baud to watch a SAS PROC PLOT, when you can see each and every dot being laid down, and definitely not left to right nor top to bottom, and not speedily. That was my TSO access from home in 1976.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 8:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Teletypewriter Model 33 I used keypunches in college. I then graduated to a hardcopy terminal, but not a KSR-33 or ASR-33. The school had some really nice DECWriters for the non-IBM DEC System 20. And 2741s for the IBM. I adored the 2741s, which were basically an IBM Selectric typewriter with a serial interface. In college, we didn't use TSO. We used Wylber. It as actually a very nice system. Especially compared to punching cards (which often required punching out some other student who was keying in their program as they were developing it) and looking a paper output. I actually did use an ASR-33 (KSR-33 with paper tape attachment) at TCU (Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, TX) connected to some other computer in my senior high school year. Now that was a literal pain to key with. Talk about "hitting" the keys. That monster had very stiff keys and a long stroke to activate them. On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Quasar Chunawala < quasar.chunawa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Today, the mainframe staff in any enterprise work on PC running > special software(the terminal emulator) to connect to the *mainframe > server* over the company intranet. But, back in the 1960's, when > mainframes were young, what were some of input devices? Has anyone > typed TSO or compiled programs on a tele-typewriter model 33? What was > it like to work on a key-punch machine? How was the experience? I > suppose, 3278 terminals were introduced much later by IBM. > > Quasar. > http://in.linkedin.com/pub/quasar-chunawala/20/164/133/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
