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

[Bob Eager]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:06:01 -0700, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> 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...

I recently acquired two nice VT320s....for my VAXes!

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