Re: age required for classic comp
By: Grant Weasner to Bob Worm on Mon Apr 14 2025 21:23:19

That is pretty dang awesome that NetBSD runs on your older system.

Not really. You can still get versions all the way to 1.0, which came out in '93.

Most of my personal computing is just at the tty.

ASR-33?
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Grant Weasner wrote to Mortar M. <=-

No. I missed sytems using a true teletype, those were before my time.
Now I did get to play with one a few times at the living computer
museume in seattle when it was there.

I used ASR-33 teletypes connected to Northern Telecom PBXes - it was
convenient being able to look at the paper scroll to see error messages
that had occurred.

I'd learned about how TTYs worked with UNIX, it was interesting to see
one in action - and to understand how line editors worked.




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