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  1. Sorting through stuff in our garage, I found a spare keytop. Should I ever need to switch between 110 and 300 baud in the future this'll come in handy.
    I think they may have come off a DECwriter.
    #dec #decwriter #keyboard

  2. Sorting through stuff in our garage, I found a spare keytop. Should I ever need to switch between 110 and 300 baud in the future this'll come in handy.
    I think they may have come off a DECwriter.
    #dec #decwriter #keyboard

  3. @vampiress

    I programmed on one of those #DecWriter terminals...

    I still get nightmares about line editors.

    #LineEditor #PrinterTerminal #VAX #VMS #DEC

  4. @vampiress

    I programmed on one of those #DecWriter terminals...

    I still get nightmares about line editors.

    #LineEditor #PrinterTerminal #VAX #VMS #DEC

  5. 💡🖨️ For terminal access, you don't even need a monitor. Ancestor of this dot matrix printer with a keyboard, the DECwriter III, had its roots in teleprinters, which evolved from telegraphy. This model dates back to 1977 and supports only the more modern RS-232 standard with a maximum speed of 9600 bit/s.

    #computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #dotmatrixprinter #retrotech #nostalgia #nostalgie #70er #retrocomputing #decwriter #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #terminal

  6. 💡🖨️ For terminal access, you don't even need a monitor. Ancestor of this dot matrix printer with a keyboard, the DECwriter III, had its roots in teleprinters, which evolved from telegraphy. This model dates back to 1977 and supports only the more modern RS-232 standard with a maximum speed of 9600 bit/s.

    #computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #dotmatrixprinter #retrotech #nostalgia #nostalgie #70er #retrocomputing #decwriter #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #terminal

  7. @lauren

    I took my first uni #CS course as a night class while I was in high school. We used #DECWriter #printer #terminals connected to an ancient #VAX - the terminals were laughably out-of-date even at that time (mid-#80s).

    They could only print 30 chars/s, so they topped out at 300 baud.

    Good riddance to line editors!

  8. @lauren

    I took my first uni #CS course as a night class while I was in high school. We used #DECWriter #printer #terminals connected to an ancient #VAX - the terminals were laughably out-of-date even at that time (mid-#80s).

    They could only print 30 chars/s, so they topped out at 300 baud.

    Good riddance to line editors!

  9. @ghewgill @thomasbeagle
    I have a pair of vintage terminals I've hooked up to wifi to my hosted HP2000 emulator. Good times!

  10. @thomasbeagle The first time I ever used a modem, there was a tractor feed line printer connected to it on my end. #DECwriter

  11. What is #crypto? #BloombergNew seems to think it involves a #VAX-11/780 and a #DECWriter III tho’…. Weird.