Re: [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7

[Cornelius Keck <ckeck@texoma.net>]

Then promptly run into trouble with your SO and/or XO because they don't 
like the fragrance?


Toby Thain wrote:
> On 2018-08-08 10:45 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Sijmen J. Mulder <ik@sjmulder.nl
>> <mailto:ik@sjmulder.nl>> wrote:
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>>      I'm too young to have worked with teletypes or terminals but to
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>>      __
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>>      experience what working over a slower connection would be like I
>>      wrote____
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>>      a small pty program that throttles stdin and stdout to a given baud____
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>>      rate
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>> Sadly you are missing three important features in your emulation.  First
>> the noise and the second associated motion of the carriage as the
>> printer did its thing.  (The movement of the 'ball' (cylinder on a TTY)
>> was magical and made it quite set of sounds you will never forget -
>> often duplicated in the movies).   But the hardest thing to simulate is
>> the distinct smell of light machine oil that all terminal rooms had.
>
> Isn't this easy? Just use a spritzer of it around your PC.
>
> --T
>
>> Clem
>> ᐧ
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