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<DIV>Every time I see the H19 entry in the termcap file on yet another *nix system, I fondly remember using an H89 as a "glass TTY" on a VAX 750 system in the early 1980s. That was the best of both worlds -- nice terminal and the ability to work offline when the OS guru fat-fingered the latest build. :)</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: "West, Ronald S." <RONALD.S.WEST@saic.com> <BR><BR>> Last week the guys in our lab were trying to rebuild a (rather expensive) <BR>> Sun server. They needed to get into the console program which requires a <BR>> terminal connected to the serial port in order to do this. Normally we would <BR>> have hooked a laptop up and used the terminal program for that. Problem is <BR>> the computer is classified and we can't hook any of our (unclass) laptops up <BR>> to it. Solution: I suggested I bring in my H19 "dumb" terminal, which has no <BR>> storage like a laptop. That passed muster and I brought it in the next day. <BR>> Hooked the thing up, it worked instantly and impressed the h--l out of <BR>> everyone (God, I love it). The engineer doing the work asked me to leave it <BR>> there for a week to be sur
e he didn't need it later. <BR>> <BR>> I was taking the H19 out of the office yesterday to go back to its <BR>> comfortable home in the storage room at my house. Entered the reception area <BR>> of my office and a couple of the techno-types standing about said "Wow! What <BR>> is that?" and I proceeded to give them the tour (head getting bigger all the <BR>> time). Got in the elevator and a couple of the [young] techno-types from one <BR>> of the other companies in the building greeted me with "Wow! What is that?" <BR>> and, during the explanation, tried out the keyboard saying "cool!". <BR>> <BR>> Thought you folks might enjoy that story. <BR>> <BR>> Ron <BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> Delivered by the SEBHC Mailing List <BR>> If you would like to unsubscribe, please send the word "unsubscribe" <BR>> in the **body** of a message to sebhc-request@sebhc.org. </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>