[wellylug] Re: Take a hint

[Peter Dawson]

On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 David Antliff wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Enkidu wrote:
> > The Teletypes (eg model 33) certainly used XON/XOFF but that was for 
> > controlling the paper tape reader:
> 
> Well, even if I am too late to the party again, I can at least claim 'first paper tape post' many hours ago :)

Well, my creaking memory seems to recall using Ctrl-Q & Ctrl-S on teletypes to control output from a mainframe back about 1971 or 2 when they were running at a huge 110Baud. (Ah the days of George 3!)

Cheers, Phreadde :-)

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