[sebhc] Out of the museum and into the lab.

[davidwallace2000 at comcast.net]

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. :)

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From: "West, Ronald S." <RONALD.S.WEST at saic.com> 

> Last week the guys in our lab were trying to rebuild a (rather expensive) 
> Sun server. They needed to get into the console program which requires a 
> terminal connected to the serial port in order to do this. Normally we would 
> have hooked a laptop up and used the terminal program for that. Problem is 
> the computer is classified and we can't hook any of our (unclass) laptops up 
> to it. Solution: I suggested I bring in my H19 "dumb" terminal, which has no 
> storage like a laptop. That passed muster and I brought it in the next day. 
> Hooked the thing up, it worked instantly and impressed the h--l out of 
> everyone (God, I love it). The engineer doing the work asked me to leave it 
> there for a week to be sure he didn't need it later. 
> 
> I was taking the H19 out of the office yesterday to go back to its 
> comfortable home in the storage room at my house. Entered the reception area 
> of my office and a couple of the techno-types standing about said "Wow! What 
> is that?" and I proceeded to give them the tour (head getting bigger all the 
> time). Got in the elevator and a couple of the [young] techno-types from one 
> of the other companies in the building greeted me with "Wow! What is that?" 
> and, during the explanation, tried out the keyboard saying "cool!". 
> 
> Thought you folks might enjoy that story. 
> 
> Ron 
> 
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