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Brian J. Dowd wrote:
| My first home computer (1975) ran a Teletype ASR33...
| Now that was a kick. Stood on an attached stand and was shipped to
| me bolted to a wooden palette. Sounded just like a newsroom at 110
baud :-)
| Is anyone else ancient on this list or are the other geezers still
| running DOS or Windows?

I'm ancient enough to remember the IBM 1403 line printers from the same
era.  Talk about loud!  I remember one where if you had several lines of
asterisks (typical for the header and trailer pages), it sounded as
though someone was hitting it with a hammer.  Fast, though!

Ben
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