From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, December 6, 2021 at 9:43:17 PM UTC+11, Rod Pemberton wrote:   
      
   > On a serious note, the 64, 128 or 256 characters etc in an early   
   > character set was rather limiting. As such, I'd only place things in   
   > the character set which were actually needed for something useful. At   
   > the time, bells were useful. While the argument over whether coffee   
   > is more useful than a bell would have merit with a coffee drinker, I'm   
   > not a coffee drinker.   
      
   1. My point is more "bells have nothing to do with displays,   
   and I have previously been under the impression that stdout   
   was for the display, not the audio system".   
      
   2. The "activate coffee machine doesn't necessarily have to be   
   a single control character, because of the limited room. It could   
   have been an ANSI escape sequence. Given that we're apparently   
   piling everything including the kitchen sink into stdout, why not   
   the coffee machine activation sequence too?   
      
   > Apparently, as others noted you never used a typewriter (annoying   
   > pieces of ....), nor a teletype (me neither), nor have you ever seen a   
   > ticker tape (me neither).   
      
   I learnt touch-typing on a manual typewriter in about 1981-82.   
   I was allowed to quit the course when it started delving into   
   secretarial markup instructions.   
      
   > No, that would be "play Metallica - Fade to Black" here.   
      
   I just listened to it, but didn't resonate with me.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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