Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal

A-bit of interesting tech hardware, I didn’t know about.
Amazing to see it print a message only using 5bits!

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We used to have a SUN workstation lab in college with an old DEC Writer hooked up as our printer for outputting our programming homework back in the day… sometimes people would output their e-mail to the wrong printer and it would come out there. There was this one ascii art animated cow e-mail that was going around that would animate on the command line but if printed would waste a huge amount of paper full of cow askii art. That brings back memories.

This is a really neat and cool project!

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ASR33 + GNU/Linux ?