15 Aug
2014
15 Aug
'14
6:04 p.m.
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(a)andykosela.com> wrote:
On Friday, August 1, 2014, Dario Niedermann <dnied(a)tiscali.it> wrote:
Tim Newsham <tim.newsham(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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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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/
15 Aug
15 Aug
7:08 p.m.
Brian Zick scripsit:
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?
The trick would be to find a computer that not only has dialable modems
(there are several such ISPs out there, like AOL, EarthLink, and NetZero),
but also allows callers access to a command line. Normally you get
only PPP service, which just allows you to send and receive IP packets,
of no use to a TTY.
But there may be some hobbyist systems out there with dialup access.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."
7:16 p.m.
On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:08 PM, John Cowan <cowan(a)mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
But there may be some hobbyist systems out there with
dialup access.
world.std.com
The first, and (probably) the last.
16 Aug
16 Aug
8:42 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, John Cowan wrote:
--
Ernesto Celis de la Fuente
SDF Public Access UNIX System
C*Net 1-333-1106
+1 206-299-2120 ext.1106
http://ecelis.sdf.org
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/ecelis
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:08:07
From: John Cowan <cowan(a)mercury.ccil.org>
To: Brian Zick <brian(a)zickzickzick.com>
Cc: "tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Teletype
Brian Zick scripsit:
I also lurk mostly on this ML, but this thread puled my attention.
I run a FreeBSD box as home server, also I own an USRobotics modem which
I've been thinking about connect to the home server and use it to dial
in to get acces to my shell, sort of fallback. I'm moving to a new home,
maybe this could be an interesting thing to do now that I have to mount
my setup in a new place.
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?
The trick would be to find a computer that not only has dialable modems
(there are several such ISPs out there, like AOL, EarthLink, and NetZero),
but also allows callers access to a command line. Normally you get
only PPP service, which just allows you to send and receive IP packets,
of no use to a TTY.
But there may be some hobbyist systems out there with dialup access.
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