[GreenKeys] the rareness of the KSR 35 vd ASR 35

[Pete Lancashire]

One place I saw a lot of KSRs was at a school. They had one ASR (maybe 2) and
from very foggy memory 5 or 6 KSRs in the main lab along with two 029s and a
129. Who on the list knows what they are :-) The grade school lab had
3 or 4 KSRs
They TTYs were all hooked up to a HP 2116 running HP 2000 Time Share Basic.

At Burroughs consoles were KSRs or where we didn't need a hard copy
CRTs. Most input was 80 col cards. There were ASRs in the classified
areas where they designed interfaces to communication systems. Oh .. and
of course the TWX room had two ASRs

-pete





On 12/10/13, COURYHOUSE at aol.com <COURYHOUSE at aol.com> wrote:
> many many many  ASR's  used as consoles on timeshare systems and  it was
> the standard in the process control environment  as even in  a  foul  oily
>
> environment   they   ran and  ran
>
> Back when I have the computer business in the early 80s' n the  only  KSR
> 35s I seem to remember  came  from  that one  hospital  in calif and they
> were desktops!  ( some ROs   also...
>
> we had scads of  33s   and many  ASR   35s
>
> of  course ... I imagine  commonality and rarity  would also  change  with
> geographical  area perhaps   but that was my  take pone it here
>
> Ed Sharpe  Archivist  for SMECC  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)