#vt100 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vt100, aggregated by home.social.
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I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.
#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #ISO8859 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland
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I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.
#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #ISO8859 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland
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I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.
#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #ISO8859 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland
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I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.
#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #ISO8859 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland
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I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.
#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #ISO8859 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland
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I’ve just started disassembling the ROM for Digital’s VT320 terminal, which contains an 8051. I'm using D52 to direct the disassembly. The 8051 has a 16-bit register DPTR, through which you can access either ROM or RAM, which are separate spaces, requiring two symbol tables. The documentation describes a directive "d" which can say, for each opcode address, which symbol table should be searched. Except ... it doesn't work. So, to fix D52 before the real job! #retrocomputing #VT100 #VT320
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Another thing I thought should exist: a #vt100 terminal emulation library for #Golang that allows you to do session replays and captures - and that you can use in #WASM, too: https://github.com/rcarmo/go-te
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Given the opportunity, I would, with alacrity, revert to using #Emacs via a #VT100 on a #VAX-11/780 running #4.3BSD. I dare say there is much good that could be done with that setup—especially in today's #AI age.
It is not that I detest modernity, but that I adore #simplicity.
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After some time off the console I have been looking for some games for my RC2014 to enjoy over the holidays.
Surprised and delighted to find a game by @kianryan, "In the dark", released roughly three years ago.
It's a rogue like dungeon-crawler not unlinke NetHack. Maybe you'd like to give it a try?
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After some time off the console I have been looking for some games for my RC2014 to enjoy over the holidays.
Surprised and delighted to find a game by @kianryan, "In the dark", released roughly three years ago.
It's a rogue like dungeon-crawler not unlinke NetHack. Maybe you'd like to give it a try?
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After some time off the console I have been looking for some games for my RC2014 to enjoy over the holidays.
Surprised and delighted to find a game by @kianryan, "In the dark", released roughly three years ago.
It's a rogue like dungeon-crawler not unlinke NetHack. Maybe you'd like to give it a try?
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After some time off the console I have been looking for some games for my RC2014 to enjoy over the holidays.
Surprised and delighted to find a game by @kianryan, "In the dark", released roughly three years ago.
It's a rogue like dungeon-crawler not unlinke NetHack. Maybe you'd like to give it a try?
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After some time off the console I have been looking for some games for my RC2014 to enjoy over the holidays.
Surprised and delighted to find a game by @kianryan, "In the dark", released roughly three years ago.
It's a rogue like dungeon-crawler not unlinke NetHack. Maybe you'd like to give it a try?
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I've been using computers all my life, #Linux and #Unix since the 90s, and word processors since #Wordperfect 5.1 for #MS-DOS but I still can't grasp the #vim and #emacs keybindings. I know it's not necessary to learn all of them if all I'm doing is #writing novels but I still feel like I'm not a real Linux user if I can't do everything from the #commandline with input methods that predate the #ibmpc, the #modelmkeyboard, and even the #vt100 terminal.
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Self-Care VT100 would like to remind you to practice good mental health hygiene on the internet.
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Anyone can recommend forgotten books about designing and programming text user interfaces (TUI) for consoles/terminals, also known as screen design back in the 80s?
*Not* curses or using existing libraries, but more like relying directly on ANSI/VT100 control sequences. And *no*, I'm not asking for a list of escape sequences :)
The kind of material I'm thinking of is something close to the 1989 "Programming the User Interface: Principles and Examples" by Judith R. Brown and Steve Cunningham. But focused on TUI exclusively. The more (pseudo-)code, the better.
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💻🎨 Oh joy, your terminal can now vomit oversized emojis like a toddler with a new crayon set. The article basically suggests you morph your #VT100 into a #pixelated emoji billboard from '78, because apparently everyone needs their script outputs to look like a failed art project. 🙄📉
https://dgl.cx/2025/06/can-your-terminal-do-emojis #terminalart #emojioutput #techhumor #coderlife #HackerNews #ngated -
💻🎨 Oh joy, your terminal can now vomit oversized emojis like a toddler with a new crayon set. The article basically suggests you morph your #VT100 into a #pixelated emoji billboard from '78, because apparently everyone needs their script outputs to look like a failed art project. 🙄📉
https://dgl.cx/2025/06/can-your-terminal-do-emojis #terminalart #emojioutput #techhumor #coderlife #HackerNews #ngated -
💻🎨 Oh joy, your terminal can now vomit oversized emojis like a toddler with a new crayon set. The article basically suggests you morph your #VT100 into a #pixelated emoji billboard from '78, because apparently everyone needs their script outputs to look like a failed art project. 🙄📉
https://dgl.cx/2025/06/can-your-terminal-do-emojis #terminalart #emojioutput #techhumor #coderlife #HackerNews #ngated -
💻🎨 Oh joy, your terminal can now vomit oversized emojis like a toddler with a new crayon set. The article basically suggests you morph your #VT100 into a #pixelated emoji billboard from '78, because apparently everyone needs their script outputs to look like a failed art project. 🙄📉
https://dgl.cx/2025/06/can-your-terminal-do-emojis #terminalart #emojioutput #techhumor #coderlife #HackerNews #ngated -
You may use this #DEC #VT100 #terminal #beep as you wish. :sdf:
#Retrocomputing #feep #pcspeaker -
You may use this #DEC #VT100 #terminal #beep as you wish. :sdf:
#Retrocomputing #feep #pcspeaker -
You may use this #DEC #VT100 #terminal #beep as you wish. :sdf:
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You may use this #DEC #VT100 #terminal #beep as you wish. :sdf:
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You may use this #DEC #VT100 #terminal #beep as you wish. :sdf:
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It's really fascinating to see what a simple and old #vt100 terminal can do on the screen. I love it so much! 😍
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In the days of Sun-3 and other early #UNIX #workstations, the #XWindow System had one window manager, the "twm" (Tom's Window Manager). The only "apps" we used, then, were XTerm, XClock, and XEyes. Some used the XCalc, but I just used the \(\texttt{dc}\) RPN calculator in XTerm, which is more convenient, and is scriptable.
I miss those simpler times, when we still held on to our #VT100, just in case.
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I wonder how hard it would be to implement a Bluetooth #VT100 emulator using a modern microcontroller, maybe an Arduino with a little display and keyboard. It's what RFCOMM was actually meant for.
It seems like the original VT100 is extremely well documented with beautiful pictures and everything.
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⌨📺 After a long hiatus, our KOPA d.d. 1000 (the DEC VT100 terminal marketed under the Slovenian brand) has come back to life!
#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #vt100 #számítógépek #retróhardver #vintageszámítógépek #nosztalgia #Ностальгия #tilfinningaleysi #computerterminal #tty #70s #80s
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@larsbrinkhoff @onokoto
My memory is hazy, but I don't remember working on an ITS machine at that time. Our work was almost exclusively on TOPS-20.I also don't know where that mode code originated from. I made improvements to it. Apart from Emacs I also adapted the Pascal debugger to split the VT100 screen into source and execution halves. I was a TA and wasn't involved with the research community at all.
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@larsbrinkhoff @onokoto
My memory is hazy, but I don't remember working on an ITS machine at that time. Our work was almost exclusively on TOPS-20.I also don't know where that mode code originated from. I made improvements to it. Apart from Emacs I also adapted the Pascal debugger to split the VT100 screen into source and execution halves. I was a TA and wasn't involved with the research community at all.
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@larsbrinkhoff @onokoto
My memory is hazy, but I don't remember working on an ITS machine at that time. Our work was almost exclusively on TOPS-20.I also don't know where that mode code originated from. I made improvements to it. Apart from Emacs I also adapted the Pascal debugger to split the VT100 screen into source and execution halves. I was a TA and wasn't involved with the research community at all.
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@larsbrinkhoff @onokoto
My memory is hazy, but I don't remember working on an ITS machine at that time. Our work was almost exclusively on TOPS-20.I also don't know where that mode code originated from. I made improvements to it. Apart from Emacs I also adapted the Pascal debugger to split the VT100 screen into source and execution halves. I was a TA and wasn't involved with the research community at all.
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@larsbrinkhoff @onokoto
My memory is hazy, but I don't remember working on an ITS machine at that time. Our work was almost exclusively on TOPS-20.I also don't know where that mode code originated from. I made improvements to it. Apart from Emacs I also adapted the Pascal debugger to split the VT100 screen into source and execution halves. I was a TA and wasn't involved with the research community at all.
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Ich weiß nicht, ob 8 KB #Ferroelectric #RAM so hilfreich sind wenn die Firmware in einem klassischen NOR-Flash liegt und man über ein #VT100-Terminal drauf zugreifen muss, weil man in 8 KB nicht mal ansatzweise ein modernes Dateisystem untergebracht bekommt... immerhin VT100 wird's in 200 Jahren vermutlich noch geben, aber USB-A? 🤔
"This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years"
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/usb-flash-drives/this-usb-flash-drive-can-only-store-8kb-of-data-but-will-last-you-200-years
https://machdyne.com/product/blaustahl-storage-device/ -
Ich weiß nicht, ob 8 KB #Ferroelectric #RAM so hilfreich sind wenn die Firmware in einem klassischen NOR-Flash liegt und man über ein #VT100-Terminal drauf zugreifen muss, weil man in 8 KB nicht mal ansatzweise ein modernes Dateisystem untergebracht bekommt... immerhin VT100 wird's in 200 Jahren vermutlich noch geben, aber USB-A? 🤔
"This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years"
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/usb-flash-drives/this-usb-flash-drive-can-only-store-8kb-of-data-but-will-last-you-200-years
https://machdyne.com/product/blaustahl-storage-device/ -
And #pixelperfect (minus aspect ratio correction) #VGA display is possible in #xterm using bitmap(!) fonts I found here:
https://github.com/farsil/ibmfontsAs always, it wasn't *that* simple ... xterm expects a complete set of #VT100 drawing characters to be available, otherwise it will render its own which leads to funny color bugs at least with the "medium shade" used a lot in #ansiart ...
... so, let's patch the missing ones in (using dummy empty glyphs), which I did here in a #FreeBSD port for these fonts:
https://github.com/Zirias/zfbsd-ports/tree/local/x11-fonts/ibmfontsScreenshots show #dos2ansi render some ansiart and its #SAUCE info, once in VGA-9x16 and for comparison in VGA-8x16 😎
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Enriquecendo o episódio 146.
https://retropolis.com.br/2023/10/19/enriquecendo-o-episodio-146/
#MundoRetro #Altair8800 #Commodore #CommodorePET #CromencoZ1 #Digirule2 #digital #emulao #IMSAI8080 #JupiterAce #Kenbak1 #kit #Minicomputadores #PiDP11 #PiDP8 #RaspberryPi #sinclair #Terminal #VT100 #ZXSpectrum #ZX81
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Enriquecendo o episódio 146.
https://retropolis.com.br/2023/10/19/enriquecendo-o-episodio-146/
#MundoRetro #Altair8800 #Commodore #CommodorePET #CromencoZ1 #Digirule2 #digital #emulao #IMSAI8080 #JupiterAce #Kenbak1 #kit #Minicomputadores #PiDP11 #PiDP8 #RaspberryPi #sinclair #Terminal #VT100 #ZXSpectrum #ZX81
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Enriquecendo o episódio 146.
https://retropolis.com.br/2023/10/19/enriquecendo-o-episodio-146/
#MundoRetro #Altair8800 #Commodore #CommodorePET #CromencoZ1 #Digirule2 #digital #emulao #IMSAI8080 #JupiterAce #Kenbak1 #kit #Minicomputadores #PiDP11 #PiDP8 #RaspberryPi #sinclair #Terminal #VT100 #ZXSpectrum #ZX81
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@feoh Sadly we have a tendency to ship units like that directly to recycling here. I did manage to get my hands on an incredibly sexy Wyse terminal once though.
Speaking of #VT100, I once wrote a pretty awesome terminal emulator for #DECnet under #DOS. Writing support for VT100 meant showing up at the local #DEC office and begging them for any sort of documentation. The woman at the reception thought I was mad, but managed to find an admin in the basement who was kind enough to provide some photocopies of the spec. I was 17 or 18. It was in the early 90s. Good times! :-)
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Here's my #throwbackthursday contribution. This was my bedroom in 1988.
The large rack contained my #pdp11 34, with an RL02 drive under it. In the corner is an ATT #3b1 (aka #unixpc), with an old #mac next to it.
The thing I really miss is the #dec #gigi terminal in the middle. Very hard to find now. It was a graphics #vt100 compatible terminal.
The PDP11 ran #rsts. There's 2 more racks full of hardware for it off to the left. Was like being next to jetliner when it was running.
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Re-reclaimed From Nature: Resurrecting a DT80 Terminal - When Datamedia announced their new DT80 terminal as a VT100 killer back in 1979, t... - https://hackaday.com/2022/07/30/re-reclaimed-from-nature-resurrecting-a-dt80-terminal/ #retrocomputing #repairhacks #restoration #decvt100 #vt100 #dt80
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Re-reclaimed From Nature: Resurrecting a DT80 Terminal - When Datamedia announced their new DT80 terminal as a VT100 killer back in 1979, t... - https://hackaday.com/2022/07/30/re-reclaimed-from-nature-resurrecting-a-dt80-terminal/ #retrocomputing #repairhacks #restoration #decvt100 #vt100 #dt80
