Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!telecom-request From: FLINTON@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Fred E.J. Linton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Ctrl-A's at Beginning and End of Digest Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 91 04:28:44 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 19 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 437, Message 8 of 8 In , the Moderator writes: > When various messages are kept in a mailbox here, > the control A's are separators between them. Good thing I wasn't using the old AT&T 1300 "Video Transaction Terminal" I started modeming with -- an incoming control A would have locked the keyboard irretrievably! [Reminiscence mode on: these were the little beasts banks like ChemBank of New York and Union Trust of New Haven were pushing, at about $50.00, for use as Pronto(tm) Home Banking terminals, with a little help from a (now defunct?) consortium including ChenBank, AT&T, Time-Life, and an outfit called (I think) Covidea; not too different from the AT&T 1310 appearing a few years later as a TDD-compatible 300-baud KSR-modem for the deaf -- er, hearing-impaired.] Fred or