Sujet : Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 01. May 2024, 00:45:00
Autres entêtes
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On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:32:12 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:
The original article states that the Enter key was left over from times
when it was too expensive to stream individual characters between all
terminals.
Funny, users of minicomputers were doing exactly that with ASR-33
teletypes since the early 1960s, if not before.
The Enter key would have come from electric typewriters, where it was
needed because they didn’t have manual carriage-return levers any more.
| Date | Sujet | # | | Auteur |
| 29 Apr 24 |  IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 19 | | Ben Collver |
| 30 Apr 24 |  Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 2 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 30 Apr 24 |    Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 1 | | Sn!pe |
| 30 Apr 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 1 | | candycanearter07 |
| 30 Apr 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 12 | | Dan Espen |
| 30 Apr 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 10 | | Ben Collver |
| 30 Apr 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 30 Apr 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 8 | | Dan Espen |
| 30 Apr 24 |  Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 4 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 30 Apr 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 1 | | Jim Jackson |
| 1 May 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 2 | | Dan Espen |
| 1 May 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 30 Apr 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 2 | | Ben Collver |
| 1 May 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 1 May 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 1 | | John McCue |
| 1 May 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 1 | | Scott Dorsey |
| 30 Apr 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 3 | | Stefan Ram |
| 30 Apr 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 30 Apr 24 | Re: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80x24 display | 1 | | Ben Collver |