[GreenKeys] ASR33 punch reader control line

[Jim Haynes]

On Thu, 9 May 2013, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
> Since on a DEC box, you'd do much better with a PC0x high sped
> reader/punch and a DECwriter as your printing terminal of choice. (Or
> a VT52 if you want to not deal with ink and paper.) Those solutions
> are also faster, much, much faster then a 33ASR. (Compare 300 cps tape
> reading to 10 cps.)
Yes, but...before the DECwriters became available DEC had only the
Teletypes for console terminals.  And adding the high-speed reader
and punch adds significantly to the cost of the system.

For all the minicomputer makers, the 33ASR was the way to get an
inexpensive system on the market.