[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <msSdnQgdhrIACajNnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d at mchsi.com>,
	"John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.network> writes:
> On 8/22/2012 8:24 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> 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... :-)
> 
> I just wanted to see if the ASR33 still worked.  Unfortunately it did 
> not, it was out of alignment, so I gave it away to an old computer 
> collector.  Probably has been sitting in his barn since then.
> 
> RS232 to current loop adapters are very easy to build.  The last time I 
> actually used the ASR-33 it was as a printer to a TRS-80 Color Computer.

As long as we are n this subject which may be seen as perverse on a VAX
or not.....  :-)

My first computer printer was a Lorenz LO-15 Teletype driven by a Flesher
TU-170 (John probably knows what that is!) to convert TTL to 60ma loop.
I wrote the Baudot Driver software in Z80 Assembler and used it on a
TRS-80 Model III.  :-)  And that's the true definition of being perverse!!

> 
> Regards,
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.network
> Personal Opinion Only

bill
(KB3YV, and formerly DA1WO)

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