Omrom programmable terminal -joke

William Donzelli wdonzelli at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 22:44:35 CDT 2009


> Well, I seem to remember that the old Bell Dataphones (e.g. 401E)
> didn't have much in the way of active components in them.  One using
> tubes should be very easy to work out.

Not hard. The military AN/FGC-5 is pretty straightforward, except for
Teletype's retarded decision to use a magnetically controlled triode.
The rest is textbook dual-triode and mini-thyratron stuff.

--
Will


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