[Info-vax] DECwriter

[John Santos]

In article <00bf4cd1$0$27930$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, 
jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca says...> 
> Which model was featured as the log console for the nuclear plant in the
> documentary ""Chins Syndrome" with jack lemmon and jane fonda ?

LA36.  The LA120 looked almost the same, but printed much faster.

I've heard some of this was based on reality.  During normal startup
or shutdown events of real nuclear power stations, the printer would
get so far behind that the operators would do "something" that would
make the log skip ahead so the could view what was currently happening
instead of what happened 20 minutes ago.  The article I read didn't
specify what the "something" was, but my guess was ctrl/O.  (I don't
know what kind of printers real power reactors used, but the DEC
printers were extremely popular at the time.  Much faster and more
reliable than the Teletype ASR33 and 35.)


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John