On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 10:51, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "BT" == Brian Truter <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > BT> I will give this a try, see if I can come up with anything. Thanks > BT> for the ideas and info! > > Good luck. It's funny how none of the other responses picked up on > local terminal printing. We still use it here because our student > records system still runs on VMS, but in the old days that's just how > it worked: you had a parallel printer hooked to your VT100 and the > application sent codes to switch between screen output and printer > output. Does anyone still remember the old days? > > - J< Yeah, some of us still remember the old days. Huge noisy line printers, decollating machines, huge stacks of punch cards for your programs, acoustic coupled modems, paper tape, 300MB removable multi-platter disk drives, core memory, reel to reel tape drives. Can't say I miss it. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Hurricane Charley survivor Confirmed 105 MPH winds 3 Days 9.5 hours without power
