[GreenKeys] Teletype Model 33 TTY

[Doug Alderdice]

At 10:28 AM 5/13/2009 -0600, Bryan Brodie wrote:
>There are a lot of people in IT today whose first exposure to computers 
>was as a kid through the ASR33.

I am one!  Started with computers in a Saturday "camp" sort of program at 
the local private school when I was in about sixth or seventh grade where 
one of the classes was computers, done on ASR33s connected to the school's 
DEC PDP11.  All we did was PRINT statements in BASIC, but in 1976 that was 
really cutting edge stuff, esp. for kids!  Went on to do FORTRAN on punch 
cards on an IBM/360 in high school and the PC revolution hit when I was in 
college.  Went away to college with my electric typewriter that was my 
"big" HS graduation present and came home a year or two later with one of 
the first IBM clones that got me through the remaining time for my 
undergrad degree.  By the time I did my Masters I had upgraded a bit to an 
IBM PS/2.

I have a 33 or two, but I didn't pay the $$ they are going for on ePay.  I 
got mine for mere peanuts in the late 80s at hamfests.

73,

Doug, KA2WFT