Add a photo of line printer in the introduction #390
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That is a beautiful picture of a Model 33 Teletype. But a line printer looked like this |
Nice! Should we add it then? |
I expect the introduction meant “teletype”. Folks seem unlikely to
use line printers for input ;).
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I really enjoyed seeing a line printer but I think this does not add to the lesson by itself mainly because I do not how they work! |
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:20:28AM -0700, Bartosz Telenczuk wrote:
You can't use this image in a core SWC lesson, because it's CC BY-SA |
@wking Good point! How about this one. Its CC BY 2.0 - we can add the attribution in the caption. @Mahdisadjadi I have never used one, but I imagine it's like telnet, but instead of screen you have a typewriter ;). We can also add a link to wikipedia article in the caption. |
+1 for adding the link to Wikipedia! |
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 02:43:57PM -0700, Bartosz Telenczuk wrote:
That sounds better. I'm not sure about mixing CC BY versions (2.0 |
Alternatively, we can try to contact the author and ask him to re-license with CC BY 4.0 |
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 04:23:00PM -0700, Bartosz Telenczuk wrote:
If you're that motivated, that would be great. I'd make sure the |
Thanks. I already sent a message to the author. I'd love to hear from the maintainers what they think. Personally, I like using such a photo at a workshop to explain the history of command line. I find it very illustrative. |
A similar image exists here and seems to be under CC BY 2.0... would that help? |
In the introduction we say:
Would it be useful to add a photo, so people can understand better what line printers were? For example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/ASR-33_at_CHM.agr.jpg
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