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Wiring A Vintage Teletype To The Internet
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."
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?
No.
Hook this bad boy up to a machine running ASCII Quake, and give new meaning to the term "Frag"!
Let's try not to let fact interfere with our speculation here, OK?
(nervously) Who sent you?
A VT220 terminal sitting here in a box, too precious to throw away, too useless to do anything with except perhaps hook up to a Linux box as a useless console.
And now I can hook it to the Internet! This is seriously useful stuff. Maybe I can make it beep as the text appears, in double size, so that people can see I have a REAL computer!
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"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? "
This project coupled with the authors last name, brings new meaning to "artificial intelligence".
What's the point of having an alert if you have to go look for it?
That means the older the better.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
The bell is real, but the teletype itself makes so much darn noise that it would be ideal for notification of alerts needing immediate attention. My anecdote us that a friend once hacked one into a being printer for an Apple][. Not only did it make a din during normal operation, because his was missing some structural support it would occilate and bang into the adjacent metal table. Not everyone in the area had the same level of appreciation of this feature however. ;)
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
Hey! That's SCO code!
"I used to have that really cool,funny sig
I once worked for a company whose business cards had a Telex number on them. At a trade show, I gave a young feller my card. He studied it briefly and pointed to the Telex number at the bottom asking what it was. I said, "That's our Telex number." He looked at me and asked, "What's a Telex?" "It's a Teletype that can store messages", I replied. He seemed to nod, acknowledging my answer but then asked, "What's a Teletype."
Wansu, th' chinese sailor
Of course, inputting commands is rather trickier...
1 o.o.o.o
2
3 o.o.o.o
4
5 o.o.o.o
And of course, if you ever get gibberish, you should physically observer the tape for a messages:
1 ooo...o..ooo..ooo....o...o.ooo
2 o..o..o...o...o......oo.oo.o
3 ooo...o...o...oo.....o.o.o.ooo
4 o..o..o...o...o......o...o.o
5 ooo...o...o...ooo....o...o.ooo
I already tried it.
The pop-up ads were hell.
So I'm going to be using an Altair 8800 front panel for web surfing, instead.
-- I have monkeys in my pants.