#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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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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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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You may use this #DEC #VT100 #terminal #beep as you wish. :sdf:
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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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@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/ -
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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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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2:3 Scale VT100 Terminal Gets Closer to its Roots - When [Michael Gardi] finished his scaled down DEC VT100 replica a few months ago, ... - https://hackaday.com/2021/06/15/23-scale-vt100-terminal-gets-closer-to-its-roots/ #terminalemulator #serialterminal #classichacks #raspberrypi #simulator #decvt100 #emulator #vt100
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when people ask me if they have to use this or that technology, i tell them - think of it like this: will you use a computer, or will you use a tvset?
tvset transmits to you, computer works as you wish.
in this case luke describes, you're using a terminal, something like vt100, not more.
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Ask Hackaday: Are 80 Characters Per Line Still Reasonable In 2020? - Software developers won’t ever run out of subjects to argue and fight about. Some of them can be fun... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/06/18/ask-hackaday-are-80-characters-per-line-still-reasonable-in-2020/ #softwaredevelopment #currentevents #linustorvalds #askhackaday #originalart #codingstyle #punchedcard #featured #interest #vt100 #ibm
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Someone posted this yesterday (I think) but I can't find it now..
https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typographyI wrote a fontforge script that stretches out the glyphs to their original visual size: https://gist.github.com/epilys/95869773037d3d2235d324bd5a0484e5
