I have a functional LA120 in my house and can attest to the machine smell
whenever I run it.

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:50 AM Cornelius Keck <ckeck@texoma.net> wrote:

> 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:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Sijmen J. Mulder <ik@sjmulder.nl
> >> <mailto:ik@sjmulder.nl>> wrote:
> >>
> >>      I'm too young to have worked with teletypes or terminals but to
> >>
> >>      __
> >>
> >>      experience what working over a slower connection would be like I
> >>      wrote____
> >>
> >>      a small pty program that throttles stdin and stdout to a given
> baud____
> >>
> >>      rate
> >>
> >> 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
> >
>