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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Received on Sat Aug 28 2004 - 18:53:24 BST