@lauren

I took my first uni #CS course as a night class while I was in high school. We used #DECWriter #printer #terminals connected to an ancient #VAX - the terminals were laughably out-of-date even at that time (mid-#80s).

They could only print 30 chars/s, so they topped out at 300 baud.

Good riddance to line editors!

@graay give up fellas - I’m moving straight to the shorts, long socks while programming on the #DECWriter 2 terminal

#VT100 / #straya 🇦🇺🦘

A family of #PDP11 computers and a #DECWriter IV terminal (along with some other old stuff). This photo is from a few years ago, when I was working on two of the 11/34s. The 11/34 on top in the stack of two was functional at this time, but the other two were flaky. The unit in the rack is now operational, but the bottom of the two stacked units has both a power supply and a backplane issue (the latter undiagnosed, the former unfixed). #retrocomputing

@ghewgill @thomasbeagle
I have a pair of vintage terminals I've hooked up to wifi to my hosted HP2000 emulator. Good times! #ASR33 #DECwriter

@thomasbeagle The first time I ever used a modem, there was a tractor feed line printer connected to it on my end. #DECwriter

1978 
 Grace Brewster Hopper PhD, checking to see if #COBOL (#FLOWMATIC ++) is working on a #DECwriter, Washington DC.

<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper>

1978 
 Grace Brewster Hopper PhD, checking on #COBOL (#FLOWMATIC ++) is working on the #DECwriter, Washington DC.
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper>

1978
Grace Brewster Hopper PhD, checking on #COBOL (#FLOWMATIC ++) is working on the #DECwriter, Washington DC.
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper>

Yep, done that… in shorts at the #DECwriter (probably a II or III) terminal, dot matrix printer connected to a mainframe. Just programming away. #straya / #shorts / #OperatingComputer

#lineart #mastoart No matter what, load your #DECWriter