[TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7

[Toby Thain]

On 2018-08-08 10:45 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Sijmen J. Mulder <ik at sjmulder.nl
> <mailto:ik at sjmulder.nl>> wrote:
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>     I'm too young to have worked with teletypes or terminals but to
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>     experience what working over a slower connection would be like I
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>     a small pty program that throttles stdin and stdout to a given baud____
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>     rate
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> 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. 

Isn't this easy? Just use a spritzer of it around your PC.

--T

> Clem 
> ᐧ