Mattel Aquarius viewing StarTTY.com while connected to PC

The Mattel Aquarius computer is shown displaying information received from the StarTTY.com telnet portal. It is direct connected to a PC using HyperTerminal on the PC, and the Aquarius Bell 103 modem (300 baud). The HyperTerminal settings are shown, as well. The information is being bridged from a command prompt Telnet connection to Hyperterminal via a macro made using Macro Magic software. I tried to show the macro in action by showing that the copying/pasting was happening without human intervention. The macro highlights the current telnet screen in the command prompt, then switches to HyperTerminal where it is pasted onto the screen. Hyperterminal immediately transmits the pasted information out to the Aquarius.

Sincere apologies for the poor quality. YouTube compression made it really dark, and the PC screen hard to read. The noise you hear is from interference from the electronic equipment being picked up by the camera. In reality, this is a silent operation. I know this is a terrible video, but it does show the Aquarius in action!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mattel
• Aquarius
• computer
• StarTTY
• StarTTY.com
• Classic
• computing
• Virtual
• Bell
• 103
• HyperTerminal
• Retro

[sinistermoon]

@OBSysteme

There is a way. It's called RetrObrite.  You can buy it but it's also pretty easy to make.

[sinistermoon]

This is way awesome. And your Aquarius is beautiful! Nice and white still. The ones that I have been seeing around are turning brownish yellow. Damn plastic! Awesome video.

[retrozoneorg]

This is so COOL! Can't wait to try this myself! Thanks for posting!