15 Aug
2014
15 Aug
'14
9:05 p.m.
A hybrid would be interesting, say a TTY with a Raspberry PI pulling
data from Reuters.com and printing the text ala a "news wire" feed.
An RSS feed would be better than processing the whole page but Reuters
doesn't seem to have one or I couldn't find it.
cnn.com/rss reveals lots of possibilities, however.
This could be fun (and smell like oil and ozone)!
Ed S.
On 8/15/2014 11:52 AM, Brian Zick wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca
<mailto:lyndon@orthanc.ca>> wrote:
On Aug 15, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Brian Zick <brian(a)zickzickzick.com
<mailto:brian@zickzickzick.com>> wrote:
--
Ed Skinner, ed(a)flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/
Would it still be possible today for someone like
me to go out,
and find an old teletype terminal (an old ASR or DECwriter or
something), set up a phone line and modem and get a roll of paper,
and then actually use it to connect to other computers?
I know it's not really practical today - but is it possible?
Certainly it's possible. Although you would really only be able to
do it with an ASCII terminal. A DECwriter would work fine. For a
Teletype beast, you would need to make sure it used ASCII. But
lacking lower case, I think you would find it too painful to use,
even though all the current versions of UNIX (and Linux) I'm aware
of still seem to support the necessary case conversion in the tty
drivers.
Hmm. So for a TTY that old there would probably be no option for
lowercase. That does sound a little painful, especially if I wanted to
edit modern programs..
Your biggest obstacle might be finding a host machine that still has
a modem attached that you could dial in to :-)
So perhaps I could simplify it and attach to a machine sitting next to
the TTY - which then in theory could connect to the outside world via
the usual means. I wonder, has anyone tried something like this?
And, of course, everyone KNOWS the entire universe runs in terminals
that support ANSI escape sequences for colour and cursor
positioning. Who needs termcap? (I'm looking at you, git. And
clang.) So you might find setting TERM=dumb isn't quite enough.
Also, ed(1) is a wonderful editor on a hardcopy terminal. Unless
you run it on Linux, which KNOWS the whole world runs on 24 line
terminal windows, and therefore ed needs to pause its output.
I usually use vim, but before learning vim I learned ed and used it for
about a 2 month space for editing config files and things, so that
should hopefully be the easy part. :-)
Brian Zick
zickzickzick.com <http://zickzickzick.com/>
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