On 10/14/2025 7:23 PM, Martin A Flynn via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

Working on a potential exhibit for the museum.

Sourced an Ultratec IntelleModem that does TTY/TDD for the hearing impaired,

Mike and I just did a talk at JawnCon this past weekend where he talked about these specific model modems; Mike didn't find them to be reliable[1], but I'm curious if your experience has differed.

looking for terminal emulation software that is simple enough for the general public to use.

By terminal emulation, do you mean TDD emulation specifically?

In the distant past, I used an app called Futura-TTY, looking for an archive copy or something similar.

There is a free trial program for Windows called ipTTY[2] which is basically a TDD-capable SIP client. I've used it before, and you can reset the 30-day free trial by deleting the registry keys it's created. I'm not seeing the free trial download on the website anymore, but I have a copy somewhere. At some point, I also wrote a fairly primitive terminal program[3] that can act as a console TDD, again using a SIP registration with an Asterisk server. I use a similar concept now to support relay services in the PhreakNet operator services system, if someone calls 711. Finally, for the server side, if that's what you're talking about, my maintained version of the Asterisk softmodem supports Baudot code (both 45.45 and 50 baud), so you can use that to proxy the TDD connection to a telnet server; I use this to allow TDDs to dial into the PhreakNet BBS. [1] https://youtu.be/bcr6bCopBD4?t=17232 [2] https://www.tenacitycorp.com/products/iptty [3] https://github.com/InterLinked1/AsTTYSpy [4] https://github.com/InterLinked1/phreakscript/blob/master/apps/app_softmodem....