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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] TV Typewriter: Custom G10 copper clad

2016-03-21 by Brad Thompson

On 3/21/2016 1:45 PM, Harvey Altstadter hrconsult@... 
[Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:
>
> Aargh! You reminded me of my first encounter with the time sharing 
> service that our company contracted with in the 70's. Dial up, 300 
> baud, acoustic coupler. I/O was a KRS 33 Teletype.  No operating 
> system, just a Monitor.  I am convinced that that situation caused 
> many of our employees to be wary of the PCs when we finally got them. 
> That time sharing system was so gruesome that it scared people away 
> from wanting to use computers.
>
Hello--

Gruesome, indeed. One advisory message on our primitive 1970s-era 
time-sharing system read, "Changes not saved. OK?"

73--

Brad  AA1IP

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