[GreenKeys] CRLF or not CRLF?

tony.podrasky tony.podrasky at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 19:57:25 EDT 2017


See my .sig

On 08/01/2017 04:16 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> There's a book about the late Datapoint Corp. which was home to Vic Poor
> of RTTY fame.  Their first product was a CRT terminal which they called
> the 3300.  Someone suggested that was because it was 100 times as good
> as a Model 33 Teletype.
>
> They took the terminal to some computer show and were not getting much
> traffic past their booth.  Then they got the idea - there were lots of
> exhibits on the floor using Model 33 Teletypes, and they arranged to
> swap their 3300 terminals for the 33s.  And immediately got a lot of
> enthusiasm.

--
This "telephone" has too many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a means of communication.
The device is inherently of no value to us.
                         -Western Union memo, 1877




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