From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 11 21:48:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4C937B401 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f5C4m2l42166; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:48:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Roelof Osinga" Cc: "Jason Halbert" , Subject: RE: vi Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:48:02 -0700 Message-ID: <001001c0f2fa$dca1a220$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <3B24E577.61A05B10@nisser.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: Roelof Osinga [mailto:roelof@nisser.com] >Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 8:36 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Jason Halbert; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Who's talking about emulation? I meant the actual teletypes, both >the ASR-21 >(I believe) and the newer ASR-33 or some such number. The former needed >keypress forces of more than a pound. They didn't even have a screen, >paper roll only, well, and puch . > One of these days I'm going to have to find an old 20Ma teletype and hook it up to a FreeBSD system just for the hell of it. One of the most interesting terminals I ever saw was this little match-box sized project that either Popular Electronics or someone like that made up once that consisted of a grid of little tiny LEDs that did something like a 40x10 character matrix. I don't remember if it actually handled any kind of term emulation but it was pretty amazing what people would come up with. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message