THYRATRON : More than TTY

Presented at ShmooCon 2022 Rescheduled, March 24, 2022, 6 p.m. (60 minutes)

Join me on the whimsical journey of acquiring a teletype machine, the restoration process, and adapting them to modern systems. Yes, there will be a full functioning kit in this presentation for live demo’s, and that good ol’ nostalgic smell that conjures memories of “gandpa’s basement.” This talk will also discuss the importance of maintaining and understanding these older systems as they hold close resemblance to modern systems today; we should not lose attention from technological rosetta stones.


Presenters:

  • Russell Handorf
    Dr. Russell Handorf (@dntlookbehindu) currently is an agent of chaos at Twitter. Just recently he was a principal threat intelligence hacker where he spent his time making criminal’s curse his very existence. He is also a recovering fed after ten years of service defending the country in a variety of matters. He’s done a lot of other odd things here and there, but that isn’t important. Let’s just have a conversation, but you’ll have to endure my dad jokes.