Re: Input capable printer

On 7/25/17, 10:40 AM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. wrote:

I had to stop and laugh a bit because, even though one would assume
that was a rhetorical question with an obvious answer of none, my
mind wandered back to my college days working with an old HP 3000
minicomputer. It did have several 300 baud video terminals, and even
a 1200 baud one for the students to use, but if those filled up, or
if you needed a printout to turn in an assignment, you would go
across the wall to an even larger row of 110 baud print terminals.

When I was in high school (2 multiplexed leased lines to a 370/135 at the district office, running McGill University MUSIC 2.3, and later MUSIC 4), we had a motley collection of a dozen terminals: Lear ADM-1s, a Lear ADM-3, a couple of Datamedia Elites, a thermal printer that had a built-in acoustic coupler modem (so the teacher could take it home and work from a dial-up port), a Model 43 Teletype (which replaced a daisywheel terminal), . . . and 3 LA36 DECWriters. If we were lucky, we could get all of them up at 300 Baud. If we weren't, one terminal per phone line had to run at 150, or even 110.

At CSU Long Beach, we had various CDC Cybers, along with a DEC PDP-11. While there were some graphics terminals (including a handful of Tektronix DVSTs!), and a few very old Telerays, the overwhelming majority were Teleray 10Ts, rigged to use shared printers.

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JHHL