[GreenKeys] AP "Top Stories" gone?

[Duncan Brown]

On 29-Apr-18 14:59, epvgk at limpoc.com wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 02:03:08PM -0400, Duncan Brown wrote:
>> If some of you software types could just put together something we could
>> just download and run to print these news feeds, it would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
> That's sort of the whole problem. If your setup were exactly the same as mine,
> it would just work. But if anything's different, it gets much harder to account
> for what kind of computer, what serial adapter, what version of everything, etc.
> HeavyMetal was a pretty good attempt but also a really big program suffering
> from not being maintained too much for a while.
>
> The other approach is dedicated hardware - I set up a couple of people with a
> pre-configured raspberry pi with all the software already installed, but then
> the same problem comes up if they want to add something new - their current
> setup isn't what the new thing is expecting.
>
> I don't really have any good solutions but it's definitely a big part of the
> challenge of computer systems in general.
>
> eric
Eric,

OK, understand that there are a lot of variables.  But I was wondering 
if you or someone could take what you have done already and put it in a 
exe file that would run on any PC.  Something that would just go out to 
the AP top stories, clean it up, convert to 5 bit and send it to the 
serial port at 60 wpm.  Doesn't need any bells & whistles, just 60 wpm 
would be OK.  Just something simple that we could use to demonstrate 
receiving the news on a TTY.

Something to think about??

Thanks,

Duncan
K2OEQ

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