I had forgotten that. We had one of those for "on call" use at one place where I worked. But we had 2400 bps connection and I had a 2400 bps modem. I helped one poor programmer (was actually sent to her home) who had a 300 bps acoustic mode connected to an Apple II with a 40x24 screen. Watching the screen scroll right and left was agonizing.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Barry Merrill <ba...@mxg.com> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
