On 30/04/2012 23:57, Owain wrote:
On Apr 30, 10:50 pm, jgharston wrote:
When I worked in IT I'd get people saying "the keyboard's broken",
so I'd take a spare keyboard along to investigate, only to find
out that actually the /computer/ wasn't working.

That's what happens when you put computers on people's desks, instead
of locking them in computer rooms where they should be and giving
people microcode-loadable terminals over differential bidirectional
error-corrected twin coax links to a Wang VS.

Owain

Blast from the past. That twin coax was a pig though. I experimented
with 100m of shielded twisted pair - shields all commoned and the cores
connected to the twisted pair - it ran for months without a problem.
This was before Cat5 was common, of course.

For a 'green screen', Wang WP and Wang office was elegant.

--
Pete
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