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Re: History--early remote on-line computer access

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On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Mike Spencer wrote:

>
> hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:
>
>> The NYT of 11/28/1962, pg 57, reported that users remotely
>> accessed a Honeywell computer via terminals.  No card
>> punching in advance was necessary.
>>
>> They utilized a Western Union Telex terminal, a Teletype model
>> 32 (three row Baudot* machine).
>>
>> The computer was located at a Honeywell site in Newton, MA.
>> Users were located in Minneapolis, New York City, and Boston.
>>
>> While computers had remote batch access in the 1950s, I
>> wonder if this 1962 attempt was the first on-line interactive
>> effort.
>
> A friend who had a summer job at MIT in '63 worked at a hardcopy
> terminal connected to a (the? :-) central computer. (time share? I'm
> not sure of the correct term for the tech used.) When a higher
> priority job ran, the terminal would print WAIT and become
> unresponsive for a bit.
>
When I was using Microware OS-9 (multi-user/multitasking, unix-like) on
the Radio Shack Color computer, I didn't have the luxury of "wait".  Most 
of the time all was fine, except when I printed something. The Color 
COmputer off the shelf used software to convert to and from serial, and I 
had a printer hooked up there.  And that would use up the processor.

So when I flipped to another screen to get back to the word processor, the 
whole thing slowed down so much that I'd see the cursor moving around the 
screen, when usually it was instantaneous so you just saw it flip from 
point to point.  You couldn't do anything while that printer was printing.

But, it ran at 1 or 2MHz, had 64K or 512K of RAM (depending on which Color 
Computer model), and I last used it in 1993.

   Michael

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History--early remote on-line computer access hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-06-06 14:33 -0700
  Re: History--early remote on-line computer access Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-06-07 02:30 -0300
    Re: History--early remote on-line computer access Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-06-07 16:49 +0000
    Re: History--early remote on-line computer access Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-06-07 10:44 -0700
    Re: History--early remote on-line computer access Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-06-07 13:47 -0400
    Re: History--early remote on-line computer access Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-06-07 10:54 -0700
    Re: History--early remote on-line computer access hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-06-07 13:17 -0700
      Re: History--early remote on-line computer access Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-06-08 00:23 +0200
      Re: History--early remote on-line computer access Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-06-07 19:22 -0500
        Re: History--early remote on-line computer access hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-06-08 12:11 -0700
      Re: History--early remote on-line computer access jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-06-08 12:25 +0000
        Re: History--early remote on-line computer access "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-06-11 10:37 -0500
          Re: History--early remote on-line computer access jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-06-12 12:27 +0000
            Re: History--early remote on-line computer access Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2016-06-16 17:11 -0400
              Re: History--early remote on-line computer access usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-06-17 07:37 +0000
                Re: History--early remote on-line computer access Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2016-06-17 16:53 -0400
      Re: History--early remote on-line computer access JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 10:35 -0500
      Re: History--early remote on-line computer access "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> - 2016-06-18 08:35 -0400
  Re:History--early remote on-line computer access Sarr Blumson  <sarr.blumson@alum.dartmouth.org> - 2016-06-07 12:20 -0400

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