this is good wallpaper material
Your typewriter is cool :-)
Thanks!
Very relevant…
That is insane!
Instead of
unalias lsto avoid having justlssend ANSI color escape codes to the terminal, he should really have passed thetermargument toagetty, like maybedumb.EDIT: At 10:22, where he starts typing the login, it looks like the teletype does seek back up to reposition the cursor at “LOGIN:”, so it does support at least some limited escape codes. Maybe something a little smarter than
dumb.Hell, maybe there’s even an existing terminfo/termcap entry for a compatible teletype.
glad I watched the whole thing, that is amazing
Shit that beats out connecting my 90s serial equipped typewriter to use as a terminal output.
Probably the most cost-effective option is gonna be a used daisy-wheel printer with continuous feed paper.
I’d guess that the fastest — if all one wants is a very fast dead-wood terminal — is probably gonna be some kind of line printer. Apparently some of the late-model IBM line printers were made by a company called Printronix, which is still making printers. One of their printers, the P8C20, can apparently print at 2000 lpm. I can’t find any video of one printing, but here’s a video of an older 1500 lpm printer from them with the sound-isolation cover open. Dunno if it’s running at full speed there, though.
I agree, and perhaps some deep diving to find an older dot matrix printer? Should be supremely hackable. I only have experience with these:
They were extremely durable and low maintenance. Also loud and more stress inducing than a modern SMS notification.
Good times
Last I checked, hospitals around my area still use dot matrix printers, mainly because of carbon copy papers…
I was watching the thing and got to the part where he said that he was using XON/XOFF flow control and thought that the guy’s Arduino RS-232 ASCII-to-Baudot-encoding thing could be made more efficient if he’d make the encoder use the RS-232 RTS/CTS lines instead of XON/XOFF encoding. Then I realized that he’s converting to 45.5 baud, and that at that speed, even his 9600 baud line — normally the chokepoint for people with modern hardware, you know, 1980s and on or so — is blisteringly fast and inefficiency at that point is irrelevant.
Damn, but we can be so creative!
Your image description says what kind of typewriter you’re using but not the kind of paper!! What kind of paper are you using? Anything fancy?
Ah, my apologies. Just a sheet of normal ISO A4 printer paper. Nothing fancy.
Yeah, but can it play Doom?
https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-ascii
The frame rate may be somewhat limited, but dealing with that is really just a skill issue.
Can anything not play Doom?
Yes, it is I
You can crack a cacodemon over the noggin with it.
No serial connection? No retrofitted, pneumatically driven typewriter as a line printer? You’ve got to do better to stick out.
Mate, it’s not that deep.
Have you got a 27B stroke 6? Sorry, I’m a bit of a stickler for paperwork.
It’s beautiful, I’ve looked at this for five minutes now. You’ve won at the internet today, gg
The topping of this is going to require 220 lb 100% cotton vellum-finish cardstock and someone equipped with a calligraphy pen. There are some plotters that can take fountain pens.
Keep going; I can see you’re well on your way to getting it installed.
People actually used to use a bunch of solenoids to turn typewriters into printers back when printers were very expensive.
Huh, cool!
Check out the Olivetti pcs!
that’s not even linux
My guy, I literally typed out the fastfetch output for Arch Linux.
Yes. You typed it out. You don’t need Lunix for that. It’s not backwards enough to be a hack or at least amusingly pointless but -unless you’ve never seen a typwriter in your life- just boring.
Yes. You typed it out. You don’t need Lunix for that.
I mean, I’d have a hard time manually running the fastfetch binary part.
Only boring thing in this thread is your post
Thanks, but I think you just bote me. Also, no, you are boring. Duh!
You can just chuckle and move on, friend. It’s not that deep.
Chuckle? Uninstalled that bloatware ages ago
OK Mr no fun allowed.
RTFM
You need to check things. There are at least 47 packages, so NefoFetch isn’t reporting the correct number.
Well, it’s a very stripped down installation. No bootloader or init system, no display drivers, busybox replaces a load of stuff, ed(1) is the only editor available, and a few things were compiled from source.
When you’ve got 0B of storage and 0B of RAM, you’ve got to work with what you have.
Why does it have
1and0keys wheniandowould work just as well? Can’t stand this kind of bloat…/sI like this a lot
Qwerty though? Remap that thing over to Colemak or something!
i want to see a paper based dumb terminal now
I want to see someone with too much time on their hands build a haunted typewriter, by hooking an electronic typewriter up to an LLM
Like a TTY?
That’s literally card punchers.
Edit: better link, with video.
no, I mean a whole dumb terminal (basically a digital typewriter that was used for early computers) but using paper as its display. I’m pretty sure that was a thing before the digital ones but I want to see one that works with modern linux
