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Perhaps my favorite video on YouTube is this glorious footage of someone hooking a 1930s teletype up to a computer running Linux: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v
by NateEag 6y ago
Perhaps my favorite video on YouTube is this glorious footage of someone hooking a 1930s teletype up to a computer running Linux:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE
Watching it for the first time is what finally made ed click for me.
And yes, I was disappointed that the author clearly didn't understand why ed has the UI it does. It's about the teletype, not the computational cost of having a WYSIWIG UI.
- koolba 6y agoThat video is amazing!
- klysm 6y agoI desperately want to set up a teletype on my modern desktop - there’s just something so awesome about electromechanical interfaces with a lot more mechanical than electro.
- NateEag 6y agoAgreed. I have some mechanically-minded young sons who I'm hoping to introduce to computing by way of a teletype of some sort.
- andrewksl 6y agoYeah that video is all kinds of amazing. I also got lost down a several hour rabbit hole watching the guy and his buddies bring up an AGC and perform a simulated lunar landing with it. Thank you for sharing!