From: nowhere@nevernet.at   
      
   On 05/12/2021 07:23, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 4:30:48 PM UTC+11, Frank Kotler wrote:   
   >   
   >>> And if I had designed a teletype in the same era that had a   
   >>> coffee maker attached, would the designers of ASCII have   
   >>> reserved a control character to switch it on?   
   >   
   >> We don't know.   
   >   
   > You don't need to take my question so literally.   
   >   
   > If YOU were designing ASCII back in 1960 or whenever, and   
   > a teletype existed that had a coffee machine, would YOU have   
   > reserved a control character (or sequence, like the ANSI   
   > escapes) to switch it on?   
   >   
   > What makes sense to put in a stream?   
      
   there actually were Tele-Type codes (taken over by ASCII later on)   
   defined DC1..DC4 as special purpose because they were rare used for   
   communication controls.   
   I remember that some folks connected their TTY-receiver to household   
   equipment to turn on heat or light or remote open the garage door by   
   using a sequence of BELL and various DC for such.   
   This gimmicks didn't last very long because good friends often played   
   silly games and made the story pretty unsafe.   
      
   I still use code 07 for error beep, but ignore it on incoming strings.   
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   wolfgang   
      
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