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- From: Mark Brader <msb@sq.sq.com>
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- Subject: Killer terminals
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- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 88 19:12:57 EDT
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- Bill Witts (william@cs.ucl.ac.uk) writes: [in comp.misc]
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- I used Televideo 910 terminals as an undergrad, and when you logged off,
- the system cleared your screen. Once, I typed LOGOFF and then realised
- I needed the data currently on the screen, so I hit CTRL-S hard just
- as the first carriage returns came through to scroll the screen. And
- the terminal just stopped - no logoff message, nothing - and nothing
- that I did made any difference. It was definitely the terminal that
- went, as I tried plugging different terminals into the same socket,
- and power-off didn't help. I couldn't believe this, so I replicated the
- situation and killed another terminal.
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- Later on, I mentioned this to a friend who didn't believe it either, so
- he promptly killed one and demoed it to someone else. Within an hour,
- half of the college terminals were extinct which was amazingly popular
- as it was the middle of the project season, and about a week later
- the dead terminals were taken away and were replaced after a further week.
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- ... Bill
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- Bill Witts, CS Dept. UCL, London, Errrp william@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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