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5 responses to “Practical Retrocomputing”

1. 2012/11/14

   Dave Walker

   What fun :-).

   The last green-screen terminal I used, actually had very little curvature; this was because it had “video memory” in the literal sense (in the form of a plane of core between the guns and the glass, such that the beam would set bits as it hit the cores on its way to the phosphor).

   It was a Tektronix 4012, and was rather a fun thing, as it also had a little vector engine in it.

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   1. 2012/11/14

      alecm

      I used a T4014 as my MUD-playing terminal of preference. Get the font size right and you could have several pages of text up on it at once. 🙂

      http://jim.rees.org/computers/t4014.html

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2. 2012/11/14

   Stephen Smoogen

   I was just going to say.. I need to set up a webMUD and use this as the front end. I feel nostalgic.. I need screen to be running so I can have crack running in window 1, satan in window 2 and telnet muck.net on window 3.

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3. 2012/11/14

   Gilberto Persico

   Couldn’t guess the unix it is running, apache2 & postfix doesn’t seem too much retrocomputing 🙂

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4. 2012/11/15

   Mike Belch

   My first two jobs in the mid-80’s were writing firmware for graphics terminals that emulated the Tektronix range. Happy days – having your vector based drawings appear on screen via a 9,600 baud serial line typically connected to a Vax or Prime computer.

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