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I spent many fine hours using on of those Tek terminals. The screen didn't scroll, but just kept drawing again from the top. There was a button you'd press to c

I spent many fine hours using on of those Tek terminals. The screen didn't scroll, but just kept drawing again from the top. There was a button you'd press to clear it, but people often didn't bother doing that until the redrawing made the content incomprehensible. This was back in the day when "vi" was considered an abomination, because it wasted so much effort redrawing the screen, when the "proper" way was to do line-by line changes, with ex. Oh, the good old days.

tempguy9999 7y ago
I was somewhat confusing them with storage tubes per the wiki article title but I didn't realise the tech was still around like that in the 70s! Thought it had gone long before then. I too was taught to use ed at university and don't consider it time wasted, but I'm well chuffed that better stuff (macs) were coming in then. I actually had the questionable good fortune to use ed on a paper teletype for an hour. Then, staring down at it, my neck cricked and I had to stop. AIUI ed (or something simpler) on paper teletypes was what original unix might have been written on - good times! Not.