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Jim Wilkins wrote:
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DoN. Nichols wrote:

On 2016-11-18, Larry Jaques
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On 18 Nov 2016 04:09:34 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"


I would probably have been reading BBS postings with either an
ASR-33 Teletype, or a Lear Seigler ADM-3A CRT -- both very fixed
pitch
fonts, and no choices to change fonts. :-)

Was that one of the old green 3" CRTs? g

Nope! a B&W CRT about 12" diagonal. 80x24 characters.
(Actually, as built from a kit it was 80x12 characters, and needed
extra
ram to get to the 24 line capability. It was also all upper case,
until
an extra character generator ROM was installed, and an extra RAM to
store the case-selection bit from the ASCII set.



I still have an ADM-3 terminal, along with some color Tektronix
terminals. None have been used in over 15 years.


I still have my ASR-33 for the post-EMP Internet.



All that will be left is dead fiber optic cable.


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They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

They go for over unity! ;-)