Mein neues #Video über die grundlegende Nutzung des #Terminals in #Linux ist nun online: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/pf964Ff1BXp28D4FJCRQXJ

#tutorial #peertube #linuxeinsteiger

Cash Issuing Terminals

https://computer.rip/2026-02-27-ibm-atm.html

#HackerNews #Cash #Issuing #Terminals #Technology #Innovation #Banking #ATMs #Finance

Feb. 16, 1978 -- forty eight years ago today -- the first public dial-up bulletin board system or BBS went online.

Wired: "1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dialup bulletin board system. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the world wide web, countless online messaging systems..."

https://www.wired.com/2010/02/0216cbbs-first-bbs-bulletin-board/

I got my first modem in the summer of 1986, a Prometheus ProModem 1200A (modem on a card) for the Apple II. The first BBS I logged in to was OxGate, an RBBS/RCPM system the phone number of which I still can remember (my earliest BBS software -- firmware-based on that modem card -- had no phone book). I used BBSs avidly until sometime in 1994, when I subscribed to a local ISP's (Widomaker of Williamsburg, VA) dial-up modem-based PPP service that brought TCP/IP to my 486 PC with Windows 3.1. I could then browse the web from home, and that was basically the end of BBSing for me -- for the moment, anyway.

For those interested in experiencing this early form of online community, there are many BBSs online right now, accessible via telnet on systems old and new. I've enjoyed getting back into BBSing this way, especially when using vintage systems to login.

Most any computer can do it, today. Tips on how: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing

#BulletinboardSystem #BBS #BBSing #telnet #dialup #modem #online #terminals #terminalprograms #computinghistory #history #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #nostalgia #ATDT #onlineforums #preinternet #internet #communication #RBBS #AppleII #CRT #memories #Wired #tech #technews #technology

vttest is cool.

I remember running such in the 1980s. At the time it wasn't a C program yet, but a text file and you ran it with simply "cat vttest" at looked at the result.

For vttest terminal needs to implement ESC#8 which according to manual is "used by DIGITAL Manufacturing and Field Service personnel". It fills the screen with 'E's.

#RetroComputing #VT102 #Terminals

Seizing The Means Of Production (Again)

Since last week, I’ve been hardening my agentbox and webterm setup through sheer friction. The pattern is still the same:(...)

#agents #ai #ansi #docker #llm #notes #python #terminals #wasm #webgl #webterm

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/01/1940?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

As someone who knows how terminals, and indeed terminal emulators, work (having used actual terminals years ago, and having written several terminal emulators) I encourage you not to promote this AI-generated bunk as a source of learning.

It is incorrect on a lot of points, beginning with erroneous descriptions of the colour models and what line discipline modes the Bourne Again and Z shells use.

There are subtle omissions and errors in the "terminal stack" and TUI sections.

The "how they fit together" part is blatantly wrong, and the descriptions of the shells and the terminal emulators are laughable (but also regurgitate some widespread myths, which is likely why the AI slop here has what it has).

This is a sad+bad successor to the years of answers that I and other people gave on StackExchange and the like.

https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115861488474520435

https://how-terminals-work.vercel.app

The lobste.rs people have already identified the source on Twitter for this AI slop.

#AIslop #terminals #TerminalEmulators