Continuing Topic Drift The Silent 700 was a character-only thermal paper printing dial=up terminal, so color was unknown. And actually, only the character PROC PLOT could be used on the Silent 700.
It was later, with a dial-up video terminal with SAS/GRAPH PROC GPLOT, but still using a 300 baud modem just to see what happened, that showed every PEL (Picture Element) as it was placed, and the order was all over the place, not left to right top to bottom that I had expected/presumed. Barry -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO EDIT COMMAND - BOUNDS WARNING: serious topic drift... Barry Merrill wrote: >>Well, line-mode worked a whole lot better than full-screen on my 300 baud >>Texas Instruments 700 back in 1976. >It was also fascinating to print a SAS/GRAPH at 300 baud! Hmmm. Interesting. How long (minutes) did, with that linespeed, it took to print a graph (vector line or character) on an A4 page where black/colored part is covering about 30% of page or less? I remembered the good old days when I used a plotter to print out stats for my management. Sometimes some of the expensive color pens which were not used often had to be thrown away because the ink just crystallize and nothing (even after shaking or heating) will make the ink flow again... If the vector plotting is successfull (no smudge or dripping pens), my wait of about 2 or more minutes were over for EACH page... Lesson learnt: verify the pens are working BEFORE starting printing monthly graphs for management... ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht (ex-plotter! :-D ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
