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I have a TRS-80 4P that works beautifully, and I'd love to set it up as a terminal to other equipment I own (a Linux server, or a PiDP-11), but I'm having trouble finding actual, functional terminal ...
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Please note this is a different question from this one of mine from six years ago. So I acquired a second Epson HX-20 with a view to hopefully being able to put together one working computer from the ...
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The MUPID was an Austrian-made terminal for the BTX online service from the 1980s. It featured two special keys other BTX consoles did not have: a blue key labeled K, and a red key labeled R. On the ...
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I have older test equipment with printer ports on them and wish to output and capture data to Tera Term or PuTTY on my newer PC. I'm not trying to print from my newer PC to an older printer. We used ...
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As I was looking for a way to properly render console output in my websites, I looked into a library that would transform ANSI codes to HTML (or plain text, markdown... but in my case, I want to use ...
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While looking through the documentation for xterm, I noticed that it listed ESC V and ESC W as Start of Guarded Area (SPA is 0x96) and End of Guarded Area (EPA is 0x97) respectively, but didn't say ...
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It is widely known and reported that the 1963 definition of ASCII had ↑ and ← at positions 0x5E and 0x5F. Soon after these were changed to ^ and _ and so they remain. The first terminal I ever used ...
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I've got a 1989-issue VT420 terminal I used to use as a secondary console for my Linux machine. After a couple of years, I tried to bring it back to life. After switching it on, the well-known line ...
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Why are all complete Teletype Corporation Model 33 ASR shown mounted on a dedicated metal stand?
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Definitely, the earlier teleprinters, like Model 15 and even earlier could be put on a table. But for some reason the fashion shifted and most hard-copy terminals in the 1960s and 1970s used a special ...
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The VT100 terminal already had an 8080 processor. So why did it have to be connected to a host computer? Why not use its processor to perform computations? Is it because the VT100 processor's purpose ...
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Rendering a screen full of text as a video signal required a substantial amount of circuitry, especially in the era before LSI semiconductors. A device to generate display signals for a moderate ...
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In the movie Fantozzi va in pensione (1988) I see a strange cable for terminal connection, what kind of connection is this? seems a scsi cable, but I know the terminal is Ampex 220 and as I know ...
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I found an old Telerate green monitor at a thrift store and figured I could run my computer output through an HDMI -> AV converter with no problem, or a Raspberry Pi composite output signal. Turns ...
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The specification for termios.h includes a facility for controlling the number of bits per character sent over the serial line, the CSIZE and CSn constants. You can request five, six, seven, or eight ...
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