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From: chiaraviglio@husc2.UUCP (lucius)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Best hardcopy terminals
Message-ID: <1053@husc2.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Dec-86 22:14:53 EST
Article-I.D.: husc2.1053
Posted: Sat Dec  6 22:14:53 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Dec-86 02:14:26 EST
References: <1438@kitty.UUCP> <2516@phri.UUCP> <1374@hoptoad.uucp> <1443@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Ctr., Cambridge, MA
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In article <1443@hcrvx1.UUCP>, hugh@hcrvx1.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier) writes:
> In article <1374@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> These little hummers ran at 11.9 cps, 134.5
> >bps, using the same modems later used for 300 baud ASCII, and contained
> >the magic Selectric keyboard that nobody, not even IBM, could quite
> >duplicate in newer technology.
> 
> Not exactly.  The code had 6 bits of data, 1 parity bit, and 2 stop
> bits (I am not sure of the stop bits).  134.5/9 = 14.94444...  These
> terminals went at 15CPS.  But hold on -- shift was a character.  You
> probably don't want to hear more about the character sets (any of
> them).

	Yes we do!  Us depraved brain-damaged-thingamagig-lovers gotta have
it!  All of them!

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