[GreenKeys] Teletype Model 33 TTY

[hunybuny at eskimo.com]

I worked for Data General Corp. And we had one of our minicomputers
connected up to 128 33-ASRs at one time!

When I did maintenance I was able to send test messages to the 33-ASRs,
including lines of single characters.

Imagine the look on the kid's face when 128 33-ASRs received
continuous "bells".

DO IT AGAIN, MISTER! DO IT AGAIN, MISTER! :-)

The kids were pretty good with being nice to the machines because
they loved to use them and knew that if a machine was "down", the
person that would have gotten to use that machine would have to
read a book - major punishment!

There is something magical (and still to me even today - when I've been
working with computers for 30 years) to type in your username and
have the machine type back at you "Good morning, Tony - how are you today?"
The kids *LOVED IT*

UE,
W6ESE - tony
NNNNZCZC

Bryan Brodie wrote:
> Don,
> 
> I know you hated them, but as a junior high school kid learning
> programming for the first time in the 1970s, the ASR33 was the most
> amazing thing we had ever seen.
> 
> One spoiled rich kid I knew had his father buy him one; it cost them
> about $3000-4000 because they did not want to lease it and he had
> 'connections' with the phone company. He also had a Camaro before he
> had a driver's license...
> 
> The really cool thing was the day I finally made the pilgrimage to the
> computer room where the time-sharing system we connected to was
> installed. The HP2000 minicomputer had a ASR35 as the system console -
> and I had wanted one ever since. Thanks to George Hutchinson, I got my
> wish.
> 
> There are a lot of people in IT today whose first exposure to
> computers was as a kid through the ASR33. The ones with money who want
> to re-live their childhoods still want a terminal of their own. We
> never in our wildest dreams imagined that one day we would actually
> have a computer in our homes.
> 

> Bryan Brodie

-- 
Tony J. Podrasky | On two occasions I have been asked [by members of
                  | Parliament!], "Pray, Mr. Babbage - if you put into the
                  | machine WRONG FIGURES, will the RIGHT ANSWERS come out?"
                  | I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion
                  | of ideas that could provoke such a question.
                  | Charles Babbage - inventor of the analog engine (1st CPU)