[ih] Impact of history on today's technology [was: why did CC happen at all?]

[dave.walden.family at gmail.com (dave.walden.family at gmail.com)]

On Sep 5, 2014, at 8:12 AM, "Bernie Cosell" <bernie at fantasyfarm.com> wrote:
 I think all the documentation on 
> that stuff is long gone, alas.  There was some magic sequence you could 
> send it that could unlock the keyboard, and so the overall sequence of 
> events was something like get line of text, translate to ASCII, send out 
> the connection, send the unlock the kbd sequence.   

see section 6 at
  https://ia902508.us.archive.org/9/items/bitsavers_bbntipADA0eTerminalIMPAug75_2157363/ADA014398_Users_Guide_to_the_Terminal_IMP_Aug75.pdf

around pdf page 38.   I bet BBN has a copy of the flowchart-of-the-code docunent we did for the TIP.