8 Aug
2018
8 Aug
'18
8:56 p.m.
Oh my yes. The Model 33’s and the 2741s… The timer setting off the ball rotate to remind
you the computer is tapping its foot...
But all is not lost for those from the ‘80s. There is
http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
<http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/>
a terminal emulator prepared to mimic screen curvature, flicker, visible scan lines, etc.
-Larry
On 2018, Aug 8, at 10:45 AM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Sijmen J. Mulder <ik(a)sjmulder.nl
<mailto:ik@sjmulder.nl>> wrote:
I'm too young to have worked with teletypes or terminals but to
experience what working over a slower connection would be like I wrote
a small pty program that throttles stdin and stdout to a given baud
rate
Sadly you are missing three important features in your emulation. First the noise and
the second associated motion of the carriage as the printer did its thing. (The movement
of the 'ball' (cylinder on a TTY) was magical and made it quite set of sounds
you will never forget - often duplicated in the movies). But the hardest thing to
simulate is the distinct smell of light machine oil that all terminal rooms had.
Clem
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