> > Bonus history question: What do tha accronyms ASR & KSR mean and
> > what hardware differed between those variants?
> 
> ASR -- Asynchronous Send Receive
> 
> KSR -- Keyboard Send Receive
> 
> The ASR was a "receive only" teletype, used for such things 
> as newsfeeds.
> 
> The KSR included a keyboard.

AFAIK I had an *A*SR 33 *with* a keyboard. IIRC the A was for automatic.

My parents did not allow me to use the beast in my little room for fear
of ear damage. It ended up next to my sisters room. I used it to print
address labels.I used narrow paper (much cheaper than telex paper),
which had to fit in the centre because that is were the feed mechanism
was. Hence the beast had to do a lot of spaces before it reached the
printing zone. IIRC it took an hour or so to print 200 labels, but that
was much better than writing the labels by hand :) The computer was an
Exidy Sorcerer, 48K RAM and a modified casette interface.

Wouter van Ooijen

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