From: noemail@basdxcqvbe.com   
      
   On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 22:23:29 -0800 (PST)   
   "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?   
   >   
      
   Yes? ...  Um, because, like, the coffee machine was attached, Dude?   
      
   No? ...  As, you'd also need another control character to switch it off.   
      
   Maybe? ...   
      
   Why not? ...   
      
   Who cares? ...   
      
   > What makes sense to put in a stream?   
      
   Fish?   
      
   [CORRECT ANSWER]   
      
   I won!  Yeah!   
      
   What do I get?   
      
   > (serious answer)   
      
   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.   
      
   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).   
      
   Earlier in the thread,   
      
   > You may as well have control codes for "put the coffee machine on"   
   > and "play AC/DC - Back in Black".   
      
   No, that would be "play Metallica - Fade to Black" here.   
      
   Arguably, Metallica's "Fade to Black" is the greatest song ever   
   written, maybe followed by Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven", of   
   course, with all the other Metallica songs inserted in-between.   
      
   I once listened to "Fade to Black" on repeat for twenty hours straight.   
   And, I can say with 100% certainty that I had absolutely no impulse to   
   commit suicide ...  Of course, I was sober and not depressed,   
   apparently unlike the other poor bastards.  (Too dark?)   
      
      
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