[TUHS] Teletype

[Ed Skinner]

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:
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> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca
> <mailto:lyndon at orthanc.ca>> wrote:
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>     On Aug 15, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Brian Zick <brian at zickzickzick.com
>     <mailto:brian at zickzickzick.com>> wrote:
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>      > 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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