Re: [groff] 04/05: {g, n}roff.1.man: Give assistance to pager users.

[John Gardner]

I've lost the link, but I remember somebody got hold of a hard-copy
terminal somehow and used it to display his Twitter's newsfeed by threading
output through a serial port hooked up to his Linux workstation.

The output wasn't much to look at, but the effort somebody went to to
connect two technologies invented 50 years apart was seriously inspiring.

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 at 10:55, Damian McGuckin <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, John Gardner wrote:
>
> > Surely 300 baud was a more refreshing[1] experience than an
> > electromechanical teletypewriter, right?
>
> Never used one. I am NOT that old! Although I saw maybe 2 in my life.
>
> Regards - Damian
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