Unfortuneatly for me, I can recall the 150 baud 2741 being the "fast"
terminal in a shop dominated by 110 baud Teletype KSR 33s:
http://www.kekatos.com/teletype/gil/M33.htm
The 300 baud Decwriter was wicked fast, especially after we bought the 120
cps aftermarket upgrade for it.
Gary H.
P.S. I did see (and very briefly use) the 6cps (that IS a SIX) Teletype on a
newswire, but go back no further.
GH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 10:32 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT: Internet support - was Re: Re: [OT] A sincere
apology -- sort of.
>
> Nice!
>
> 2741 was a bit before my time - and the wrong brand. I have clear
> memories
> of using the LA36 Decwriter connected to a timesharing system through a
> special phone with 300baud modem. It's on the right here:
> http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/pdp11.html and was OK for a page or
> two
> of output at 30cps - getting multipart reports printed out required a walk
> down the road to borrow time on the head office finance department
> PDP11/70,
> with its lineprinter, a fearsome beast indeed:
> http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/lp20.html which sat alongside the
> PDP11. Curiously, they trusted me to log in and input my remote job to
> get
> the print out running. Must be because a PDP11 wasn't a real computer.
>
> How times have changed...
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Chuck Norcutt
> Sent: 10 September 2005 12:21
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: OT: Internet support - was Re: Re: [OT] A sincere
> apology
> -- sort of.
>
> Piers Hemy wrote:
>
>> Go on, it's the weekend already, we aren't in a hurry...
> -----------------------------------
>
> I'll tell a short one. It was probably 1969. I had written some
> production
> planning programs and needed to teach our secretary, Candy, to do data
> entry
> on an IBM 2741 typewriter computer terminal.
>
> Candy had never used anything but an ordinary typewriter but the 2741 was
> just a fancy Selectric typewriter. The continuous fan-fold paper and pin
> feed platen was probably a bit strange to her but she seemed comfortable
> with it from the beginning. I started the program and explained how she
> was
> to enter the data. All was going swimmingly until she finished the first
> page. At that point the program recognized the end of page and
> automatically spaced up to the next one.
>
> At that point, Candy literally leaped up out of her chair and backed well
> away from the terminal totally terrified. She started looking all around
> her as though some invisible intelligence was watching her and started
> crying; "How did it know to do that; how did it know to do that?"
>
> It took quite a while to explain it to her and get her calmed down. We
> tend
> to forget how even simple, common technology wasn't always so.
>
> ps: She was a great typist and went on to enter vast amounts of error-free
> data.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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