Ahh, nostalgia! I used to be a TWX operator at the UCLA library, specifically for interlibrary loan requests to other libraries. This was in the early and mid 1970s. Used a machine very like that one.
I still have paper tape copies of my first shaky coding attempts, punched on a machine very much like this one. It was attached to a DEC PDP/8e, with a HUGE 4 kilobytes of good old-fashioned core memory.
Ah, those were the days... watching the TTY incrementally shuttle across the room as it moved a fraction of a millimeter with each CR... toggling in a binary paper tape bootstrap loader on the computer's front panel... dealing with the fact that the damned thing would often hiccup and trash its RAM when the Gestetner duplicating machine in the next room switched on.
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Date: 2009-04-14 10:34 pm (UTC)Model ASR-33 by the looks of it.
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Date: 2009-04-15 10:00 pm (UTC)Ah, those were the days... watching the TTY incrementally shuttle across the room as it moved a fraction of a millimeter with each CR... toggling in a binary paper tape bootstrap loader on the computer's front panel... dealing with the fact that the damned thing would often hiccup and trash its RAM when the Gestetner duplicating machine in the next room switched on.
Y'know, maybe those WEREN'T the days.