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  1. ⌨️📺 The DEC VT100 is a historically significant computer terminal. It was available in Slovenia under the name KOPA d.d. 1000. We obtained our specimen in 2006, and it is in working condition, but it lacked a keyboard. Now we've tracked one down and hope to try it out soon! 💪

    #computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #computerterminal #dec #retrocomputing #sloveniancomputerhistory #vintagetech #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retrotech

  2. 🦕🖥️ The Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal (1976) looks like it's straight out of The Flintstones 😃 We received it 12 years ago from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and it dates back to the times before the influential VT100 terminal.

    #computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #MundoRetro #computerterminal

  3. The computer-terminal dynamically-redefined-character-set (DRCS) technology could be used to create sprites.

    I.e. the spites would be part of the soft-character-set.

    And it could be extended to support other file data formats besides just sixels.

    (The computer-terminal dynamically‐redefined‐character‐set (DRCS) technology is similar in idea of a unicode private‐use‐area.)

    #computerTerminal #DRCS #dynamicallyRedefinedCharacterSet #text

  4. @jr

    An important thing about many #ComputerTerminal is that — a lot of them (probably most) could only display text!, and only in a single color!

    (Although I suppose it is 2 colors, if you also count the dark color of the screen.)

    (And also, the 1 color of different Computer Terminals could be a different color from each other.)

    So the Computer Terminal world was very monochromatic & text oriented!

  5. @jr

    Back in the 1990s it was not uncommon to still see Computer Terminals in use.

    A #ComputerTerminal kind of looks like a computer; but they aren't computers.

    You can kind of think of them as a combined monitor & keyboard.

    They connected to a computer located somewhere else.

    Sometimes many Computer Terminals connected to the same computer.

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    For a long time, the de facto ‘text’ data format included the Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) control sequences.

    In practice, SGR control sequences were as much ‘text’ as the carriage-return, form-feed, horizontal-tab, line-feed, vertical-tab control codes are ‘text’.

    SGR control sequences gave us things such as — bold, color, italics, overlining, underlining, etc.

    #ComputerTerminal #SelectGraphicRendition #SGR #Text