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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-03-17 16.50, 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.

:-)
The various printing terminals are quaint, but I can live better without 
them. The VT05 was cool looking, but a bit lacking. But I wouldn't mind 
having one today, just for the looks.
The VT52 is a perfectly fine terminal, even today.

Various other (non-DEC) glass terminals are better forgotten...

	Johnny