28 Aug
2004
28 Aug
'04
11:53 a.m.
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Tony Duell wrote:
Although I did once find a use for an Atari 400
keyboard. It had no
keycaps to get lost of get stolen. I put it on my college room door when
I was nan undergraduate and linked it to a box of electronics consisting
of a keyboard encoder and a text-to-speech board (CTS256 and SPO256
based, of course). This was linked to a 'spare' serial port on my CoCo 2
so that people could log in an leave me messages. I set up an account
called 'message' with no password where the 'shell' was the message
program which asked for your name and the message, then recorded them,
along with the time and date, to disk.
Fun!
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