Just the idea of a teletype by your bed. You wouldn’t need an alarm, just get it to type anything.
The National Museum of Computing:
Apart from the uncanny resemblance of this bedside teletype machine to today’s bedside iPhone, I wonder how the young lad featured here in 1967 is coping with today’s digital world. Perhaps his children come along to TNMOC’s weekend coding to follow his earlier footsteps? http://www.tnmoc.org/news/news-releases/fuzeliers-support-young-coders-tnmoc and http://www.tnmoc.org/learn/weekend-codability
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