On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
In article <94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>,
Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>> Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd
be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload.
Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth of
inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on Saturday
night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
Read this carefully: “Bloom County” had a weekly deadline for 10
years. I missed 100 percent. Each of those 500 weeks, I had to drive 40
miles at 4:30 a.m. to the airport at whatever city I lived in to put the strips on a plane as cargo, delivered by a cabdriver in Washington,
D.C., a few hours later. Every. One.
In article <94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>,
Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload.
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
In article <94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>,
Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>> Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd
be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload.
Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth of
inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on Saturday
night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
On 9/23/2021 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
In article <94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>,
Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire
wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd
be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload.
Right. Besides even if the paper isn't using a canned comics page from
an outside vendor it's highly likely that nobody in editorial or
production even looks at the strips. Plug in and print, to repent at leisure if there are complaints about content.
Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth
of inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on
Saturday night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
Partly true:
Read this carefully: “Bloom County” had a weekly deadline for 10
years. I missed 100 percent. Each of those 500 weeks, I had to drive 40
miles at 4:30 a.m. to the airport at whatever city I lived in to put the
strips on a plane as cargo, delivered by a cabdriver in Washington,
D.C., a few hours later. Every. One.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/arts/bloom-county-40-berkeley-breathed.html)
However comics are one of the parts of the paper that are printed well
ahead of the distribution date - Saturday night is absurd.
On 9/23/2021 2:59 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:
On 9/23/2021 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
In article <94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>,
Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire
wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd >>>>> be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload.
Right. Besides even if the paper isn't using a canned comics page from
an outside vendor it's highly likely that nobody in editorial or
production even looks at the strips. Plug in and print, to repent at
leisure if there are complaints about content.
Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth
of inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on
Saturday night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
Partly true:
Read this carefully: “Bloom County” had a weekly deadline for 10
years. I missed 100 percent. Each of those 500 weeks, I had to drive 40
miles at 4:30 a.m. to the airport at whatever city I lived in to put the >>> strips on a plane as cargo, delivered by a cabdriver in Washington,
D.C., a few hours later. Every. One.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/arts/bloom-county-40-berkeley-breathed.html)
However comics are one of the parts of the paper that are printed well
ahead of the distribution date - Saturday night is absurd.
Thanks, I could not find the article that I read that from. My memory
is just not very good anymore. I would have sworn that he had to hire a
jet. Instead, he just used a regular cargo jet and a taxi.
On 9/23/2021 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
In article <94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>,
Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>>> Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd
be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload.
Right. Besides even if the paper isn't using a canned comics page from
an outside vendor it's highly likely that nobody in editorial or
production even looks at the strips. Plug in and print, to repent at
leisure if there are complaints about content.
Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth of
inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on Saturday
night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
Partly true:
Read this carefully: Bloom County had a weekly deadline for 10
years. I missed 100 percent. Each of those 500 weeks, I had to drive 40
miles at 4:30 a.m. to the airport at whatever city I lived in to put the
strips on a plane as cargo, delivered by a cabdriver in Washington,
D.C., a few hours later. Every. One.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/arts/bloom-county-40-berkeley-breathed.html)
However comics are one of the parts of the paper that are printed well
ahead of the distribution date - Saturday night is absurd.
On 9/23/21 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan<tednolan> wrote:
In article<94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>,
Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd
be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload.
Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth of inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on Saturday night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
This very strip is 5.4 MB. In 1980, on home equipment, it would take something like ten hours to upload. In 1990, about 12 and a half
minutes. Today, of course, the time is humanly negligible.
Hell, I can remember a time when it would have taken 24 hours. (I can
also remember a time when only a one-off water-cooled supercomputer
would meet the performance specs of a gawddam Apple Watch.)
On 9/23/2021 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan<tednolan> wrote:
In article<94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>,
Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd
be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload.
Right. Besides even if the paper isn't using a canned comics page from
an outside vendor it's highly likely that nobody in editorial or
production even looks at the strips. Plug in and print, to repent at
leisure if there are complaints about content.
Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth of inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on Saturday night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
Partly true:
Read this carefully: “Bloom County” had a weekly deadline for 10
years. I missed 100 percent. Each of those 500 weeks, I had to drive 40 miles at 4:30 a.m. to the airport at whatever city I lived in to put the strips on a plane as cargo, delivered by a cabdriver in Washington,
D.C., a few hours later. Every. One.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/arts/bloom-county-40-berkeley-breathed.htm
l)
However comics are one of the parts of the paper that are printed well
ahead of the distribution date - Saturday night is absurd.
On 2021 Sep 23, John W Kennedy wrote
(in article<nd6dnaYQqowNfNH8nZ2dnUU7-V3NnZ2d@giganews.com>):
On 9/23/21 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan<tednolan> wrote:
In article<94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>,Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth of
Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd >> > > > be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload. >> >
inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on Saturday
night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
This very strip is 5.4 MB. In 1980, on home equipment, it would take
something like ten hours to upload. In 1990, about 12 and a half
minutes. Today, of course, the time is humanly negligible.
it took literal hours to FTP down 6 to 9 MB files in the mid 1990s.
Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
Lynn
We printed about 75% of the Sunday paper by Friday. The main
holdouts would be sports and editorial; if certain games ran late the
sports people would still be producing copy at 23:00 Saturday
night... which is when the presses started prting the parts of the
Sunday paper not yet printed. If the sports guys didn’t deliver copy
in time, we went with filler and got the paper out the door. Which
meant that early editions looked remarkably different from late
editions. If you think that sports reporting sometimes looked rushed, that’s because it_was_ rushed.
On 2021 Sep 23, John W Kennedy wrote
(in article<nd6dnaYQqowNfNH8nZ2dnUU7-V3NnZ2d@giganews.com>):
On 9/23/21 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan<tednolan> wrote:
In article<94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>,Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth of
Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>>>> Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd >>>>> be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload. >>>
inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on Saturday
night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
This very strip is 5.4 MB. In 1980, on home equipment, it would take
something like ten hours to upload. In 1990, about 12 and a half
minutes. Today, of course, the time is humanly negligible.
it took literal hours to FTP down 6 to 9 MB files in the mid 1990s.
Hell, I can remember a time when it would have taken 24 hours. (I can
also remember a time when only a one-off water-cooled supercomputer
would meet the performance specs of a gawddam Apple Watch.)
oh, yes.
On 9/24/21 3:22 PM, Wolffan wrote:
On 2021 Sep 23, John W Kennedy wrote
(in article<nd6dnaYQqowNfNH8nZ2dnUU7-V3NnZ2d@giganews.com>):
On 9/23/21 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan<tednolan> wrote:
In article<94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>, Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd
be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload.
Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth of inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on Saturday night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
This very strip is 5.4 MB. In 1980, on home equipment, it would take something like ten hours to upload. In 1990, about 12 and a half
minutes. Today, of course, the time is humanly negligible.
it took literal hours to FTP down 6 to 9 MB files in the mid 1990s.
That would, of course, depend on the modem—but I see I was a little off
on the timeline. 57,600-bps home modems were nearer the turn of the
century than 1990. (I’m old enough to remember when speeds like that
could be achieved only by leasing eight lines to run in parallel, and 2000-bps dial-up modems were the size of a toaster oven.)
Hell, I can remember a time when it would have taken 24 hours. (I can also remember a time when only a one-off water-cooled supercomputer
would meet the performance specs of a gawddam Apple Watch.)
oh, yes.
On 2021 Sep 25, John W Kennedy wrote
(in article<StSdnX9yYP6099L8nZ2dnUU7-enNnZ2d@giganews.com>):
On 9/24/21 3:22 PM, Wolffan wrote:
On 2021 Sep 23, John W Kennedy wrote
(in article<nd6dnaYQqowNfNH8nZ2dnUU7-V3NnZ2d@giganews.com>):
On 9/23/21 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan<tednolan> wrote:
In article<94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>, >> > > > > Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd
be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern upload.
Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth of
inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on Saturday >> > > > night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
This very strip is 5.4 MB. In 1980, on home equipment, it would take
something like ten hours to upload. In 1990, about 12 and a half
minutes. Today, of course, the time is humanly negligible.
it took literal hours to FTP down 6 to 9 MB files in the mid 1990s.
That would, of course, depend on the modembut I see I was a little off
on the timeline. 57,600-bps home modems were nearer the turn of the
century than 1990. (Im old enough to remember when speeds like that
could be achieved only by leasing eight lines to run in parallel, and
2000-bps dial-up modems were the size of a toaster oven.)
when I started it was with a dedicated 33.6k modem, connecting to a First >Class BBS. Then a 56k network modem, connect at first to the BBS, then to the >FTP site. Getting an internet connection paid for itself in savings from >long-distance charges pretty much instantly. Then we got broadband; 1.5M. >What had taken hours now took minutes at most. After a bit the FTP site was >replaced by a website. We got a faster broadband connection, and didnt
care that the downloads grew to 20+ and even 30+ MB, gigantic files which >would have taken most of a day to download from the BBS. And oh, our _file >server_ had two 4 GB drives, so you had to be careful that you didnt use
up your allocated space. Fortunately I was also in charge of the network, so >I could up my allocation if necessary.
Nowadays I get more than 20 MB email in a morning and have allocated space on >the office system measured in tens or hundreds of GB; the office has a 300 M >connection, home has a 75 M connection. A 30 MB file would be both downloaded >in seconds and too small to be concerned about.
On 9/24/21 3:22 PM, Wolffan wrote:
On 2021 Sep 23, John W Kennedy wrote
(in article<nd6dnaYQqowNfNH8nZ2dnUU7-V3NnZ2d@giganews.com>):
On 9/23/21 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan<tednolan> wrote:
In article<94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>,
Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire
wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd >>>>>> be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern
upload.
Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks worth of >>>> inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on Saturday >>>> night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
This very strip is 5.4 MB. In 1980, on home equipment, it would take
something like ten hours to upload. In 1990, about 12 and a half
minutes. Today, of course, the time is humanly negligible.
it took literal hours to FTP down 6 to 9 MB files in the mid 1990s.
That would, of course, depend on the modem—but I see I was a little off
on the timeline. 57,600-bps home modems were nearer the turn of the
century than 1990. (I’m old enough to remember when speeds like that
could be achieved only by leasing eight lines to run in parallel, and 2000-bps dial-up modems were the size of a toaster oven.)
On 9/25/2021 1:27 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:
On 9/24/21 3:22 PM, Wolffan wrote:
That would, of course, depend on the modem—but I see I was a little off
on the timeline. 57,600-bps home modems were nearer the turn of the
century than 1990. (I’m old enough to remember when speeds like that
could be achieved only by leasing eight lines to run in parallel, and
2000-bps dial-up modems were the size of a toaster oven.)
Dad had an eight line 4,800 baud (bps) modem in 1975 when UCC
(University Computing Company) moved their Univac 1108 from Houston to
Dallas (we were in Houston). Our terminal had an integrated card reader
(no card punch) and a 100 line per minute printer. No teletype or tape
drive though (IIRC). It looked like something straight out of Star Trek.
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
On 9/25/2021 1:27 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:
On 9/24/21 3:22 PM, Wolffan wrote:
That would, of course, depend on the modem—but I see I was a little off >>> on the timeline. 57,600-bps home modems were nearer the turn of the
century than 1990. (I’m old enough to remember when speeds like that
could be achieved only by leasing eight lines to run in parallel, and
2000-bps dial-up modems were the size of a toaster oven.)
Dad had an eight line 4,800 baud (bps) modem in 1975 when UCC
(University Computing Company) moved their Univac 1108 from Houston to
Dallas (we were in Houston). Our terminal had an integrated card reader
(no card punch) and a 100 line per minute printer. No teletype or tape
drive though (IIRC). It looked like something straight out of Star Trek.
That device is typically referred to as a 'Remote Job Entry' (RJE) station; not a terminal; an RJE station would multiplex the card reader and
line printer (and optionally an operator station)traffic over a single bisynchronous
data communications line.
An eight-line 4800 baud modem in 1975 seems a bit early (and would be
quite expensive, and only a single line would be required for the RJE station).
On 9/25/2021 1:27 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:
On 9/24/21 3:22 PM, Wolffan wrote:
On 2021 Sep 23, John W Kennedy wrote
(in article<nd6dnaYQqowNfNH8nZ2dnUU7-V3NnZ2d@giganews.com>):
On 9/23/21 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/2021 2:24 PM, Ted Nolan<tednolan> wrote:
In article<94ab98c9-ba17-4bac-a954-9305dce8c3a1n@googlegroups.com>, >>>>>> Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:54:36 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire >>>>>>> wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Strip Layout
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/09/23
What could go wrong ?
I think if he'd randomized the order instead of just reversing, it'd >>>>>>> be funnier.
The premise sounds false, just in there to set up the joke.
I can't imagine that a full comic strip actually taxes a modern
upload.
Berkeley Breathed used to hire a charter jet to send his weeks
worth of
inked Bloom County strips from Austin, TX to New York City on Saturday >>>>> night for the Sunday newspapers from 1980 to 1989.
This very strip is 5.4 MB. In 1980, on home equipment, it would take
something like ten hours to upload. In 1990, about 12 and a half
minutes. Today, of course, the time is humanly negligible.
it took literal hours to FTP down 6 to 9 MB files in the mid 1990s.
That would, of course, depend on the modem—but I see I was a little
off on the timeline. 57,600-bps home modems were nearer the turn of
the century than 1990. (I’m old enough to remember when speeds like
that could be achieved only by leasing eight lines to run in parallel,
and 2000-bps dial-up modems were the size of a toaster oven.)
Dad had an eight line 4,800 baud (bps) modem in 1975 when UCC
(University Computing Company) moved their Univac 1108 from Houston to
Dallas (we were in Houston). Our terminal had an integrated card reader
(no card punch) and a 100 line per minute printer. No teletype or tape drive though (IIRC). It looked like something straight out of Star Trek.
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
On 9/25/2021 1:27 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:
On 9/24/21 3:22 PM, Wolffan wrote:
That would, of course, depend on the modem—but I see I was a little off >>> on the timeline. 57,600-bps home modems were nearer the turn of the
century than 1990. (I’m old enough to remember when speeds like that
could be achieved only by leasing eight lines to run in parallel, and
2000-bps dial-up modems were the size of a toaster oven.)
Dad had an eight line 4,800 baud (bps) modem in 1975 when UCC
(University Computing Company) moved their Univac 1108 from Houston to
Dallas (we were in Houston). Our terminal had an integrated card reader
(no card punch) and a 100 line per minute printer. No teletype or tape
drive though (IIRC). It looked like something straight out of Star Trek.
That device is typically referred to as a 'Remote Job Entry' (RJE) station; not a terminal; an RJE station would multiplex the card reader and
line printer (and optionally an operator station)traffic over a single bisynchronous
data communications line.
An eight-line 4800 baud modem in 1975 seems a bit early (and would be
quite expensive, and only a single line would be required for the RJE station).
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