Teletypes (was Re: Retrochallenge, 2005)

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:43:45 -0700 (PDT)
"Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:

> TIM wrote:
> > WHO NEEDS A COMPUTER AT HOME.  I'VE GOT MY MODEL 33ASR TELETYPE
> > AND 110 BAUD MODEM.
> 
> 33ASR?  You youngsters have it easy.  Back when I was young all we had
> were 5-level machines like the Model 28.  Real fun using those to talk
> to ASCII-based systems:
>     http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/ttyhan/
> 

When I was a kid, summer vacation meant not being able to get into the
High School's computer room to use the ASR33's to dial up to MERITS and
run BASIC on the HP Timesharing system.  A few times while suffering
withdrawl, I'd call up the number from home and whistle at the Bell 103
answer tone.  If you warbled properly, you could keep it from hanging up
for minutes.