If you’ve ever used a real TeleType machine or seen a movie with a newsroom, you know that one TeleType makes a lot of noise and several make even more.[CuriousMarc] acquired the silent replacement, a ...

YouTuber Marc Verdiell, a.k.a. CuriousMarc, has turned a 1930s teletype machine into a Linux terminal. To do that, he had to make circuitry and programming that translates five-bit Baudot code into ...

We have it pretty good today with our mechanical keyboards, fast processors, and high resolution displays, but if you want to go old school—and I mean really old school—try turning a 1930s era ...

Buried deep within all UNIX-based operating systems are vestiges of the earliest days of computing, when “hardware” more often than not meant actual mechanical devices with cams and levers and pulleys ...

My first exposure to computers was via alphabetic art in the third grade. A 1970s geek dad (father to my friend Brian Nicoletti), visited our classroom with a teletype machine, and connected it, via ...

Modern ASCII art refers to text art in general, but was originally used by the English community as an expression using the characters and symbols contained in ASCII character codes. The surprisingly ...