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

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Aug 9 06:44:53 AEST 2018


Especially if you use the WD40 trick for the ink ribbon. :)

Warner

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 1:14 PM Jim Geist <velocityboy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a functional LA120 in my house and can attest to the machine smell
> whenever I run it.
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:50 AM Cornelius Keck <ckeck at texoma.net> wrote:
>
>> Then promptly run into trouble with your SO and/or XO because they don't
>> like the fragrance?
>>
>>
>> Toby Thain wrote:
>> > On 2018-08-08 10:45 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Sijmen J. Mulder <ik at sjmulder.nl
>> >> <mailto:ik at 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.
>> >
>> > Isn't this easy? Just use a spritzer of it around your PC.
>> >
>> > --T
>> >
>> >> Clem
>> >> ᐧ
>> >
>>
>
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