Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!seismo!cmcl2!phri!orville!dvm!frank From: frank@dvm.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: Re: Brain-Damaged Terminal Contest Message-ID: <125@dvm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 16:04:58 EST Article-I.D.: dvm.125 Posted: Wed Dec 10 16:04:58 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 10:03:31 EST Reply-To: frank@dvm.UUCP (Frank Wortner) Organization: Philon, Inc. (NY, NY) Lines: 13 My nomination is the late, great Teletype 43. A wonderous device which used (and still uses -- we have an example) its own strange paper. The print area of the paper is 8 1/2 by 11 -- if you tear off the perforations and hold the resulting sheet sideways. Top off this wonderous state of affairs with the ability to blaze along at 300 bps while printing and emitting noise not unlike an angry horse fly and you've got a real winner. I'll say this for it: the darned thing outlasted all of the terminals (printers and CRTs) we've had. -- Frank ...!inhp4!allegra!phri!orville!dvm!frank