On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:03:36 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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DoN. Nichols wrote:

On 2016-11-18, Larry Jaques
wrote:

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.

I'm clinging to my guns, religion and copper pair. The telco business
office wants me to switch to fiber but the repairmen understand why I
don't.

Fat lot of good it will do you if an EMP nukes the rest of the
electronics which make our telephone system work now. But I grok the
sentiment.


--
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you
have earned, but it is not greed to want take someone else's money.
--Thomas Sowell