[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-08-22 13:57, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> Had I been forced to use an ASR-33 Teletype to talk to a VMS system,
>> I would hate it.
>
> Didn't some people actually do that?  I have a lot of modules from
> DEC that were in common use after the arrival of the VAX that still
> supported tty loop instead of or in addition to RS-232.

VT200-series terminals also were available with 20mA current loop...

If anyone ever hooked up an ASR33 to a VAX, it was most likely just 
because they wanted to be perverse... :-)

	Johnny

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