From: Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>, "Sijmen J. Mulder" <ik@sjmulder.nl>
Cc: "tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>,
Don Hopkins <don@donhopkins.com>
Subject: [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 11:09:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2114f16-78d3-3b11-cd0f-9bedc48ec7f9@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2Ox+AbhNvhJoKzoFiupna7Utq=CJHBXadE=tgQ2k76e2g@mail.gmail.com>
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
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2018-08-08 12:10 ` [TUHS] " Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 12:32 ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 12:59 ` Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 13:51 ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 14:45 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-08 14:56 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-08-08 15:09 ` Toby Thain [this message]
2018-08-08 17:38 ` [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was " Cornelius Keck
2018-08-08 19:14 ` Jim Geist
2018-08-08 20:44 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-09 5:14 ` arnold
2018-08-09 5:55 ` Jim Geist
2018-08-09 6:02 ` George Michaelson
2018-08-09 7:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-09 12:36 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-09 13:45 ` Michael Parson
2018-08-09 13:31 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-09 14:15 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-08-09 14:26 ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-10 11:37 ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 11:37 ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 16:24 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2018-08-10 16:58 ` Pete Turnbull
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