[GreenKeys] The Model 33 ASR

[Chris Elmquist]

On Friday (11/29/2013 at 05:54PM -0500), Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
> 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 have an Anderson-Jacobson branded '33 here that has a slashed-O type
cylinder in it. It also has the AJ acoustic coupler built in the right
side and was used for dialup to some IBM timeshare system.

I think the IBM folks were the ones that liked slashed-O.

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Chris Elmquist N0JCF