>"By turning my typewriter into a computer, I was able to recreate the experience of using a teletype. Now I know what it was like to use Unix in the 1960s when it was originally being developed!"
Indeed! This is an experience that will NOT be had by most CS students or programmers in general! And yet, it is a fundamental understanding that the early computers did not have monitors, GUIs, mice -- or even monochrome text terminals and keyboards!
Nope!
You had a headless computer, DIP switches (of some sort), and something like a teletype (text printer/text typewriter) for output... and that's all you had...
>"By turning my typewriter into a computer, I was able to recreate the experience of using a teletype. Now I know what it was like to use Unix in the 1960s when it was originally being developed!"
Indeed! This is an experience that will NOT be had by most CS students or programmers in general! And yet, it is a fundamental understanding that the early computers did not have monitors, GUIs, mice -- or even monochrome text terminals and keyboards!
Nope!
You had a headless computer, DIP switches (of some sort), and something like a teletype (text printer/text typewriter) for output... and that's all you had...
Anyway, great article!