[Info-vax] Editors, was: Re: VT keyboard replacement

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sno2ip$lmh$3 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> On 2021-11-24, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> >
> > But I am married for the second time.  :-)
> >
> 
> Did the first one get fed up with having to type in DCL commands to
> turn on the TV ? :-)

True story:  I wrote a simple menu in DCL, put a VT320 in my son's (from
my first marriage) bedroom, and he could do things like send me email
and so on.  [hecks email folder]  He was eight-and-one-half then.  He 
learned to type rather well, came up with the idea of ASCII art on his 
own, and it was really practical, since I had moved away for work and 
could see him only over a long weekend every two weeks.  Some time 
later, his mother (my first wife) bought a PC.  His reaction: "Mama's 
computer doesn't have a proper keyboard!"  :-)

Maybe we would never have been divorced if Elliott had shown me how he 
got his lawnmower to run on TECO.  :-D