Howdy folks -

So I'm mostly a lurker here and love the history and the way things used to be done. But being born in '91 I pretty much missed all of it, although I did grow up with 80s machines in the house.

There is one thing that I would love to do, and may seem a curious thing to most, but I think about it from time to time, and it's enticing. But I'm not sure where one would get started.

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?

Brian Zick

zickzickzick.com

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On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com> wrote:

On Friday, August 1, 2014, Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> wrote:
Tim Newsham <tim.newsham@gmail.com> wrote:

> just for fun, you might want to run your
> ancient unix in simh using this terminal:
> https://github.com/Swordifish90/cool-old-term

Cool! I've been waiting for ages for something like the Cathode terminal emulator
to appear on Linux too. Cathode is Mac OS X only, unfortunately.
Homepage: http://devio.us/~ndr/
Gopherhole: gopher://retro-net.org/1/dnied/

I still prefer my old Digital VT terminal though. Nothing will beat CRT screen when it comes to low resolution text-only mode.

--Andy

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