Le 2011-07-06 à 21:11, Patrick Robinson a écrit :

> On Jul 6, 2011, at 8:50 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>> 
>> On 2011-07-06, at 6:10 PM, Patrick Robinson wrote:
>> 
>>> I remember the first time I saw a DECwriter II, after a couple of years of 
>>> using a Western Union teletype (with paper tape punch!) that used a 110 
>>> baud modem with acoustic "coupler" for the telephone handset to connect to 
>>> the mainframe.  A VT52 would have seemed like magic indeed!  :-)
>> 
>> Wow.  I'd forgotten the name of it but I am pretty sure that VT52 is correct!
> 
> See, _I'm_ so old that I *remember* the name of the VT52.  Chuck, however, is 
> so old that he's *forgotten* it!
> 
> (My wife asks, "Which is older?"  That's difficult to say...)
> 
> :-)

The coolest thing about the WO Community is that even if I'm 35, I'm still 
younger than most of the community :-) But I did have to use COBOL on a VAX 750 
at college... And our lab with the first DEC Alpha stations (no need to 
activate the heat system in winter with those machines!).

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