Re: Backache and swiss balls
- From: whheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wilson Heydt)
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:40:27 GMT
In article <IwyItG.IF9@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <MPG.1e95bf827deecfec989c2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Joann Zimmerman <jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <IwxC30.L7t@xxxxxxxxxxx>, djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
Wellll.... for the first couple decades of my secretarial career,
there was not that option. The keyboard was part of the
typewriter. Then it was part of the ADM3A terminal, of happy
memory. The separate keyboard is fairly recent.
"Happy"? What's with the happy?
Integrated keyboard, nose almost up next the screen, so it was like
staring down some black hole, and wasn't the text *green*? I was *so*
glad when I left university and there were other things, even if they
were DEC vt100s.
I loved the ADM3A. I learned UNIX via one and it never broke
down on me. It did everything it needed to do and the keyboard
had a good, if heavy, touch. The DEC VT100 that I had to use
later had an exceedingly heavy touch and none of the staying
power.
Suum cuique.
And no, the text was sort of bluish-white.
There were at least two models of CRT for the ADM3A. There was a
white phosphor one and a green one.
--
Hal Heydt
Albany, CA
My dime, my opinions.
.
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