[GreenKeys] Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux terminal

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Apr 15 22:54:48 EDT 2020


On Wed, 15 Apr 2020, Jim Haynes wrote:

> Years ago I worked with a Burroughs B-5500 mainframe computer.  The 
> internal character set was 6-bit BCD, so it was upper case only.  We 
> used Model 33 Teletypes as terminals, and a few CRTs. [...]

Ahh, ye olde 5500...  Hardware knew ALGOL, OS written in ALGOL, a weird 
90-column punch cylinder...  One of the first implementers of ACLs...

The OS was MCP, which we called Male Chauvinist Pig...

-- Dave VK2KFU


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