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Wiring A Vintage Teletype To The Internet

Posted by simoniker on from the abacus-up-next dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Do you have an old teletype with a 5-bit serial interface sitting around that you've been itching to hook up to the Internet? If so, this article at LinuxDevices.com is just what you've been looking for. Henry Minsky has caught the Mini-ITX motherboard bug big-time, arguing that the tiny, yet full-featured boards can now compete favorably with more traditional embedded platforms." Minsky explains that: "Messages and alerts could be printed to the teletype automatically from remote locations (such as our Yahoo calendar), while a user could send messages and access services such as weather and news headlines from the teletype keyboard."

3 of 197 comments (clear)

  1. WHY !?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    For God's sake will you people let some of these ancient technologies die already!!

  2. Re:Can't fault me for answering the question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    fagtorrent

  3. I thought ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All of Linux was based around a 5 bit serial teletype machine. Did I miss something? All the Lintux zealots I know are always saying how command line is better than GUI - Just follows that 5 bits would be better than 8 right?