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SN922 Hazeltine 2000

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Dave New

Wow. What a blast from the past. While I was in high school, I used Hazeltine 2000 terminals at the local college campus to log in to the GE-255 time-sharing system. They were so much faster than the ASR-33 TTY we used to dial in from the high school. This was in 1972.

The GE-255 system was impressive for the day. It had a terminal unit with 21 dial-in lines that occupied an entire wall in the computing center. There was a 3-ft. diameter hard-drive spindle with about a dozen platters, that ran a file system with maximum 6144 character files, so that was the maximum program size you could write in Dartmouth time-sharing BASIC, time-sharing FORTRAN, or time-sharing ALGOL. Using the CHAIN command, you could chain multiple program files together (sort of), and cheat the file size limitations.

I still have punched paper tape of my programs that I saved using the paper tape punch on the ASR-33 TTY.


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Barry Wallis

Barry Wallis

Dave New said:
They were so much faster than the ASR-33 TTY we used to dial in from the high school.
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That's what we used in Paramus High School in '72. You ended up with strong fingers.


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Dave New

Barry Wallis said:
That's what we used in Paramus High School in '72. You ended up with strong fingers.
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I learned to type in Junior High on a manual typewriter. I had been taking piano lessons since I was six, so strong fingers came with the territory. :)


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