Finally pulled the trigger on a purchase I've been umming and aahing about for maybe the last year. I now have a pair of Teli Contact portable acoustic-coupler Telex transmitters on the way, with the matching printers.
I think these are cool not just because they're handheld Telex TTYs, but also because they had crypto onboard... initially DES, but later on a backdoored NSA-supplied algorithm: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/philips/px1000/
#retrocomputing #tty #TeliContact

And a tty zone weather update to wrap up the day. #tty

#TIL how to disable Docker Compose exec's default pseudo-TTY allocation so that you can pipe a file to a command inside a container.

It's been a while since I posted to this site... feels good to learn stuff.

https://todayilearned.net/2024/11/disable-docker-compose-exec-default-pseudo-tty-allocation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioteletype

Could this be used to have effectively dumb terminals talking to machines over radio waves ?

#unix #tty

Like I could have a cabin in the woods with solar and be able to have a unix prompt to a remote machine w/o needing a more complex typical internet connection.

Do you use a #DisplayManager or do you use #TTY with your #WindowManager / #DesktopEnvironment? #Linux #BSD

Selectric Typewriter Goes from Trash Can to Linux Terminal - If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectr... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/25/selectric-typewriter-goes-from-trash-can-to-linux-terminal/ #retrocomputing #whiffletree #interposer #selectric #solenoid #teletype #terminal #rs-232 #linux #ibm #tty