Bill Birrell wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 > I used to have one of those,  that interfaced to a TI
 > hard copy terminal...

 BB>     That was in the days when bulk storage meant punched paper
 BB> tape. :-) 

Yes it was.  My first computer,  in terms of something I actually got to
work with,  was a Heath H11 system (basically a PDP-11/03 where you got the
CPU card assembled and had to do the rest of it yourself).  That was
equipped with a reader/punch,  and the "terminal" was a
DecWriter.  We moved after that to a dual 8" floppy drive that stored
a whole 256,256 bytes on each floppy,  and that was a big step up. 


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