re: Old Dogs and TTYs ;-)

   Mark, it's nice to know I'm not the only `old-timer' around here ;-)

   - Tom (Portland, OR)

At 12:52 PM 5/30/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Andy's mention of the 'old pacing characters on XTs' reminds me
>of where I first saw stop bits.
>
>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. 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.
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