> Back in the mid '60s through about 1982, the old Teletype KSR-33 > was in widespread use. The advent of PCs pretty much wiped them out > within a few years. The world does not revolve around the PC. Nor did it then. Inexpensive video terminals, first at 1200 baud then at the unheard of 9600 baud, and dot matrix printing terminals had essentially replaced the ASR/KSR-33, -35, and -37 (which had lower case letters) by the middle of the 1970s. The KSR was keyboard send/receive. What did ASR mean? > These were electromechanical keyboard/printer terminals, > As Seen On TV In Old Movies. They ran 110 baud (11cps) > and as I recall used two stop bits. 110 baud is correct; 11 CPS is incorrect. Each character was 11 bits (1 start bit, 7 data bits, a parity bit, and 2 stop bits). 110 baud / 11 bits/char = 10 char/second. > My recollection was that if you tried to use them with one stop bit, > there wasn't enough time between successive characters for the cam > assembly to get all the way stopped after each printing stroke Correct. Lee Jones answer to above quiz: ASR was automatic send/receive. A paper tape reader/punch was attached on the left side. If a prepunched paper tape was loaded, an inquiry from the host computer would start it going. Your could use the keyboard and paper tape punch to make tapes without being connected to a computer. Vice-versa, you could print tapes to the printer while off-line. That's also why DEL has character value 0x7F in ASCII. It's all holes punched in the paper tape. Literally a strike-out character when you made a mistake in punching a tape off-line. (Lots of DEL characters was a great way to make paper tape) (chaff for those parties when I was in college. )