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Oh, yes!  The joys of the teletypewriter, that wonderful endless

 roll of yellow paper, those bizarre pushbutton keys, the bell going

 off at the end of the line.  And the hours spent studying and notating

that paper.

On a Xerox Sigma 9, at the Rochester Institute of Technology, 1978.
(And although Siggy might have had megabytes of RAM and oceans of disk
space, lowly freshmen accounts did not have acces to it.)

-Jim
(who actually learned to program on a CRT terminal, then "graduated" to
punch cards on entering college...



> That, however, would be a limiting factor, especially since a typical
> "printer terminal" would be a teletype machine with something like
> a 110 baud connection.
>
>


