"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:03:36 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Jim Wilkins wrote:
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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.

Do you really believe an EMP would be worse than the direct lightning
strikes modern systems survive daily?
http://aviation.stackexchange.com/qu...k-by-lightning

https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe...1/00322994.pdf

Lightning struck the pole across from my house in the 1990's and the
phone company had to replace the old carbon surge suppressor at the
service entrance but my cheap electronic phone was undamaged.

--jsw