Unless you had the strength of Superman or The Thing haha
Unless you had the strength of Superman or The Thing haha
lol ok
Hence "heavy iron"!
I had that terminal in the foreground lower right for a number of years.Reminds me of Connor Krukosky who set up his own mainframe in his parents basement.
The one that looks like a teletype unit or am I missing it?
Glad I never had to use something like that.
Used Wyse terminals with a Solbourne system in 1990 then changed to another university which ran DEC Vaxen so it was mixture of the VT102 (big heavy keyboards) and the the VT220s which I remember as having a very mushy keyboard.
The Wyse were definitely the nicer units (even had one at home that I connected to my FreeBSD system).
Also had X-terms at uni connecting to a Sparc20 server.
Luxury. I had to program using punched cards.
it struck me.
I know dad was a mainframe programmer in the 70s but I don't know what exactly he programmed in and what methods he got to use for entering those programs.
FORTRAN 66
It is. Also had a paper tape reader. Primarily used prior to fax machines.
Well - actually - Fax machines are EXTREMELY old. They date back to the late 19th century:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax
Fortan possible, think another was PL/1 but not Cobol (hence when I did Cobol at uni I was on my own there).
Yes, mechanisms for facsimile transmission were patented not really that long after the electric telegraph itself was invented - analogue not digital systems, of course.
Thermal paper....... Ugh. Anyone remember using that on fax machines and printers? It was a horrible medium.
^ Remember it well, ugh... Of course, the thermal printers had the advantage of not being as noisy as the comparable dot matrix printers, but yuck.
Cheers,
-CM-
Cheers,
-CM-
Printing documents was fun.. They looked good and were fine but then you had to file them away and if you were very lucky in 6 months they had not faded. Nice one scrooges trying to save money on costs.
Thermal printers are still used for many receipt systems...
I do agree though, yuck...
I do agree though, yuck...
Yep over here nearly every retailer does that and knowing most goods have a 12 month warranty and then something happens you need to claim and the docket has faded ...... Not fun unless you have scanned a copy of the docket.
