TTYs for the deaf

[Tom Jennings]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Michael Sokolov wrote:

> Of course it's possible, it's just totally non-standard, and most importantly,
> UNIX generally expects the user to have the complete ASCII set available
> to him.  The V7 tty driver has support for turning an uppercase-only
> tty like ASR33 into a terminal with both cases in software, but emulating
> full ASCII from the 5-bit TDD code seems like a bit of a stretch.

You could do two-character sequences... $a $b $c ... to get
the rest of the ASCII set (ugh)


Everyone's got their favorite tty to ascii converter, here's mine:

http://wps.com/projects/Sources/model02.bas

A PIC and a little hardware.