[SunRescue] Dumb Term

[Ken Hansen]

The first printer I ever bought, for my DEC Pro-350 was a Mannesman Tally
unit, and it had a 68000 inside it for all the fancy formatting options (I
used to write straight text files for school, then embed control characters
for formatting (bold, centered, left- or right-justified, etc.)...

But the real cool thing about that printer was *square* printhead pins - a
pipe character looked like a solid line, not a stack of 8 tiny scoops of ice
cream - the output was beautiful.

I still have the printer, but I doubt the ribbons are still available...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods at weird.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Dumb Term


> [ On Monday, May 21, 2001 at 19:40:54 (-0700), James Lockwood wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Dumb Term
> >
> > IMO a VT52 is an example of a glass tty.  A DECwriter is a tty.
Something
> > like a VT220 is considerably beyond both categories.
>
> A vt52 is *SMART* compared to a real tty (i.e. asr-33 or what have you)!
;-)
>
> Even a decwriter-III is pretty smart, just one-line-at-a-time....
> (Heck it's got an 8080 with lots of ROM code in it!)