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

[Damian McGuckin]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, John Gardner wrote:

> 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.

I saw the AT+T teletype Model 33 ASR. It ran at 110baud I think.

None of those that I personally saw were connected to Unix systems.

Regards - Damian

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