[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

[Bob Eager]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:50:32 -0400, David Froble wrote:

> Bob Eager wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:15:41 -0700, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2012-03-17 15.10, Bob Eager wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:53:39 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The design of the user interface was influenced by the Model 33
>>>>> teletype.
>>>> That would be why it uses upper and lower case, then!
>>> Until not long ago, if you entered your username in all uppercase to
>>> Unix (most any variant), it would enter a mode where all your letters
>>> were internally converted to lowercase, on the assumption that you
>>> were sitting at a terminal that did not have lowercase letters... :-)
>>>
>>> 	Johnny
>> 
>> ISTR that it did horrible things with backslashes to indicate which
>> were upper and lower case. None of us ever wanted to use it on as
>> ASR-33, and we all tried to use the Olivetti teletypewriters!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Don't get me started.  Our 11/40 had the ASR-33 as the console, and
> yeah, could read punched paper tape.  We also had a VT05B to fight over,
> and a Beehive CRT.  Then we got a couple VT52s and thought they were
> great.  All that shit can stay in a museum or landfill as far as I'm
> concerned.

I'd forgotten about Beehives. We also had some 'very cheap' glass 
teletypes. I opened one up and found an Eastern European TV inside! With 
a bit of electronics...



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