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@kjhealy
Also, who needs a VIDEO terminal
when you can have the printed page?!?

A Digital DECwriter III paper terminal, with a keyboard and dot matrix printer. You type your commands and the remote computer prints the response on paper.
24 Dec 2023 at 20:19 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mas.to
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Den of Earth

@anne_twain @kjhealy
No, it's a paper terminal - you type commands which appear on paper (printed by the dot matrix head), and the remote computer responds by printed output. You then have a record of the work performed.

24 Dec 2023 at 22:13 | Open on mas.to
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Roy Brander

@DenOfEarth @anne_twain @kjhealy

U of Calgary graduated from Marsland Teletypewriters with a big roll of newsprint and 110 bps (thus, 11 char/sec at 10 bits/byte for error correction)....to these DECs, which used the same folding-paper as big line printers for mainframes, and upped the game to 300 bps. (selectric-type print head could not move that fast, dot-matrix needed).

museum.cs.kuleuven.be/varian/t

Then came VDTs, same stream as paper; no XY control until the PC.

24 Dec 2023 at 23:43 | Open on urbanists.social
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