Re: Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/08/2014 04:28 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 11:10 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 7/8/2014 10:36 AM, Always Learning wrote:
>>> 75 baud on a TTY (clank, clank, clank, ding, thud as the printer head
>>> returned to the beginning of the line) and an amazingly fast speed of
>>> 300 baud on the up-market Terminet (? spelling).
>>>
>>> Perhaps the speeds were 300 and 1,200 baud? It was a long time ago.
>> actual Teletype KSR/ASR 33 kind of machines were 110 baud (10 cps, as
>> they used 2 stop bits)
> 110 baud definitely rings a bell.  I saw my first Teletype in 1967/1968
> at Scotland's National Engineering Laboratory (NEL). Chugging away, it
> seemed to be an exciting example of "real" computing - and it wasn't a
> bit like punched cards.

No.  It was paper tape.  And on a PDP8 I had access to in '67, it had a 
high speed paper tape reader to load the 'OS' and FORTRAN system.  In 4K 
of memory.

The invention of the 8" diskette as the boot media for the 360 was a 
serious step forward.  Also right around that time.


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