Answer · Which one? · it connects
Element 51
Answer someone's invitation.
accept a call · RSVP · join
First known
From a history
c.1974PLATO's term-talk: page someone and they see a flashing line naming you; they press term-talk to accept, or term-busy to refuse. University of Illinois.
See also: 4.2BSD talk (1983), which tells the person called how to respond.
“A person receiving a page would see a flashing message at the bottom of the screen identifying the pager. ... could use "term-talk" to accept.”
Term-talk is the first clear case where the person invited picks accept, refuse or ignore. Q-32's DIAL sent a message and asked nothing back.
Dated by a reputable history or a participant's own account. The source.
- ReadingValue
Specimen № 51 — operate freely
Answer each invitation, or silence it. Watch their side.
Fig. 51 — Respond
000 readings · idle
Down the Answer column
- it followsTgToggle
- it targetsChChoose
- it remembersCfConfirm
- it connectsRsRespond
- it guessesAcAccept
- it actsApApprove
Read down and Toggle gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Respond takes.
- accept a call
- RSVP
- join
From the 2021 table
This was a tile of its own. On this table it is a form of Respond, and its old address lands here.
- JoinIsotopeThe same act in another body.