[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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