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@DenOfEarth @kjhealy Could be a telex machine?

Like 24 Dec 2023 at 22:09 | Wall-to-wall | Open on theblower.au

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@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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@DenOfEarth @kjhealy Okay, thanks. 🙂

24 Dec 2023 at 22:34 | Open on theblower.au

@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).

https://museum.cs.kuleuven.be/varian/teletype-E.html

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

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