Hi, On 3 May 2003, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hell, > my first computer I wrote and used morse code to read the screen. I > hate absolutes. > My first computer I used punched cards and an IBM 026 keypunch. I had to read the information on the cards using a stylus to feel the holes and a humungous metal card holder made by Steubing Engineering in Cincinnati so I could tell which card column I was reading. Output was braille printed on a line printer cushioned with a foot and a half of garter elastic. Later I used a teletype attached to a time sharing system over so slow a link that I could count the characters as it printed, and I learned to figure out what it must be typing from the rhythm and length of the response string. So, my friends, speech and braille are conveniences, but there must be about a zillion ways to skin a cat. I never used Morse code though. That is cool! Chuck > > -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (6% of Full) So visit me sometime at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
