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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."

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  1. Once again... by CGP314 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Once again... by hplasm · · Score: 5, Funny
      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.

      I'm too busy overclocking my Babbage Engine. More Steam!!

      Blast it! That cooling fan is too large!

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      ...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
  2. Once again: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    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?

    (nervously) Who sent you?

  3. Bell and other sounds ideal for alerts by SgtChaireBourne · · Score: 4, Funny

    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. ;)

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  4. Patterns with punched paper tape by jeepliberty · · Score: 5, Funny
    In tuning and calibrating the signal on a radioteletype it is customary to send RYRYR. This presents a pattern on the 5-level punched paper tape like


    1 o.o.o.o
    2 .o.o.o.
    3 o.o.o.o
    4 .o.o.o.
    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