Especially if you use the WD40 trick for the ink ribbon. :) Warner On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 1:14 PM Jim Geist wrote: > 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 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 > >> > 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 >> > >> >