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Article #620719Re: Nostalgia
From: Walter Bushell
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 01:58
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 01:58
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In article <p77q5t$tv2$2...@dont-email.me>, Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I didn't consider a terminal on a 300 baud line slow. > Emacs could scroll through a program reasonably fast > at that speed. The immediate predecessor to slow terminals > was cards. A completely different animal. > > Any terminal was a good thing, but I never had to spend any time on a > paper terminal. You never had tto develop a program on a Teletype? What kind of programmer are you? -- Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greed. Me.
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