WORST keyboards ever

From: Joseph S. Barrera III <joe_at_barrera.org>
Date: Sun Aug 29 16:52:24 2004

Ed Kelleher wrote:

> Their terminals had a rotary switch for baud rate at the upper left.
> To freeze a listing that was scrolling by on their terminal, they'd
> !quick! roll the switch to 0 baud or something, then !quick! roll it
> back.
>
> What a kludge compared to Xon/Xoff ^S ^Q that decent terminals like
> the VT52/VT100 used. :-)

I used to use a VT50 with a rotary baud switch on the front.
Never tried that trick, however (I think ^S/^Q worked fine
with NorthStar BASIC on the IMSAI I had it connected to).

- Joe
Received on Sun Aug 29 2004 - 16:52:24 BST