----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Jones" <lee@frumble.claremont.edu>

> As I recall, the Teletype printing terminals, such as the models
> 33, 35, & 37 (both ASR & KSR variants) all had fixed hardware tab
> stops every 8 characters.  And you _really_ wanted 1 tab character
> (not 8 space characters) when you were receiving your program listing
> at 10 chars/sec (110 baud).

IIRC, you could punch up a control card that defined tab stops wherever
you wanted, auto skip zones and even numeric only areas.  As I remember
it many of the machines would often stop one space to the right of the
defined tab because they never got properly adjusted.  That service was
reserved for actual keypunch professionals.  ;-)

> Bonus history question: What do tha accronyms ASR & KSR mean and
> what hardware differed between those variants?

How bout the RO models, did you forget about them?  ;-)  Unfortunately I
had to suffer thru those days too.  Rolls of yellow paper, how
convenient and oh so easy on the eyes.  Did you ever see a TWX machine?


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