8 Aug
2018
8 Aug
'18
8:45 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Sijmen J. Mulder <ik(a)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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