[Healeys] Computer stuff

[John Sims]

OK how about a 60 baud 2-B teletype that I used in the early 60's?

John Sims, BN6
Aberdeen, NJ
 
www.healey6.com

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In a message dated 5/23/08 5:06:22 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
writes:


> Just a tad, Mark<G>!!  Hate to admit it but I started with DOS and thought
> I had died and gone to Heaven when WinDoz came out (HOW naive is
THAT>><G>)!!
>
Didn't realize you were that young.   (Let me see if I can get this
right...now I write <VBG>) I started communicating with a remote computer
using a
teletype from the business school to the Burroughs computer at Carnegie
tech.
Next
step, in 1971, was 15 cps (yes, that's CHARACTERS per second) dial-up
connection (put the telephone handset in the terminal cradle) to the
timeshared
computer at Interactive Data Corporation. When we got 30 cps in a computer
terminal
that weighed 40 pounds and was only the size of a small suitcase, we thought
we'd died and gone to heaven.