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Originally Posted by lumpynose
Yeah, you're right. The R in Ctl-R made me think of return.
TTY-33? Geeze, and I thought my memory went back a ways. Well, we did have a DECwriter for the console on our VAX. But that's not nearly as ancient as a TTY-33. And I have a vague memory of actually seeing an APL terminal, but it may have been a picture.
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Hey, the Teletype ASR-33 was a great device. Input, display, data storage and retrieval all in one device. And so easy to take care of. Just remove a few bits and drop it into a barrel of oil for an hour every 4 or 5 months.
As part of a project back in the 70's, we had two terminals, one a CRT based unit with multiple metakeys on the keyboard to allow generating the APL character set, the other a modified IBM Selectric with the APL typeball. An extremely concise and powerful language but suffered from being damn near impossible to read even if the programmer had used comments.