[GreenKeys] The Model 33 ASR

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

On 29 November 2013 17:17, Don Robert House <62.5milliamps at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another problem was the computer folks like to do things backwards from
> other industries
> such as the military. We had to change typewheels so that the computer folks
> could have
> their slash through the letter "O" and the rest of the world had to have the
> slash through
> the number zero "0"  Stands to reason then that computer folks to this day
> refer to Teletype
> machines backwards: ASR 33 instead of the correct as produced 33 ASR.
>
Which computer people wanted slashed-O? That's just unbelievably
stupid. (From my experience, most of the text would be slashed-0;
since a slashed-O suddenly makes all your text look wrong.)

I could understand though, if after 1965 (when the uparrow and
backarrow became the caret and underscore, respectively) the computer
people might demand the "old" 1963 style type cylinders.


In regards to calling the 33ASR an ASR33... I don't know why that
happened. I originally called it that too (ASR33), but then I learned
the proper terminology, so now I call it a 33ASR, 33KSR, et cetera. It
actually makes more sense to call the machines by model number first,
since it makes the process of sorting them in a list nicer.


Cheers,
Christian




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Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
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