[ale] Re: Us [sic] Old Fossils :)

[Tom Wiencko]

John Mills wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
> 
> > Oops...  forgot about those...  :)
> > Did ASR33s run at 50?  I messed with those w/paper-tape too...
> > I guess we tie...  :)
> 
> My experience with '33s was 10 cps ASCII, or 110 baud. The baudot model
> (presumably the ASR-32) I believe ran at 50 baud. I encountered this while
> writing a driver for INMARSAT terminals (c.1983), which service had (and
> probably still has) a baudot TTY channel. I added baudot <-> ASCII
> conversion in order to use [relatively] cheap ASCII displays in place of
> baudot TTYs which were obsolescent[!], therefore rare and expensive.
> 
> (My OldFossil credentials actually go considerably further back: fire had
>  just been discovered and we were going into serious development work on
>  pointed sticks. There were a few computers along the way, too. &P-)X-
> 
>

I was there when we discovered fire.  We used a funny device called
an oscilloscope to debug it.

Tom
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