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Victorian teletypes can be hooked to a serial port with a trivial adapter, at least enough to use CP/M and most single-case OS'es. Also, some programming langu
by anthk 11mo ago
Victorian teletypes can be hooked to a serial port with a trivial adapter, at least enough to use CP/M and most single-case OS'es.
Also, some programming languages have a setting to export code compatible with just Baudot characters: http://t3x.org/nmhbasic/index.html http://t3x.org/nmhbasic/index.html
So, you could feed it from paper tape and maybe Morse too.
- 1718627440 11mo ago> Victorian teletypes Wait what? There were devices called teletypes in the Victorian era (ending in 1901)? What were they doing?
- defrost 11mo agoThere's a recent steampunky hacked mashup called a Victorian teletype. Of more interest, to myself at least, teleprinters have a long history: * Early developments (1835–1846) * Early teleprinters (1849–1897) ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter