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Uninteresting depends on your perspective. For anyone old enough to have used a Teletype certainly it is no mystery, but how many of us are left? Speaking of,
by mark-r 5y ago
Uninteresting depends on your perspective. For anyone old enough to have used a Teletype certainly it is no mystery, but how many of us are left?
Speaking of, a Teletype didn't understand anything outside of the ASCII range. So what was reverse line feed good for? Absolutely nothing!
The author remarks that his Teletype was old because it didn't have lower case. But in my experience that was almost universal - I think I only saw a single Teletype that had lower case.
- timonoko 5y agoOlivetti Teletype had lower case. I had an interesting episode, where the University of Nitpicking Nazis discussed if my thesis, printed entirely on Teletype, was acceptable. -- It was not as good-looking as with IBM Selectric, but quite comparable to regular manual typewriters.
- mark-r 5y agoWas it the letterforms that bothered them, or the curled yellow paper?
- timonoko 5y agoI really dont know, I think it was a moral issue. When the paper was made by a computer, it was like cheating. I would have been cheap and easy to hire a professional typist to make a copy, but it would have been so lame, that I refused to do it. Few years later those same professors got their own computer terminals and then they demanded personal computer operators. Masters of Academia do not dirty their hands on keyboards.
- mark-r 5y agoSomeone needs to introduce them to Donald Knuth.