Mastodawn

@mk A thing of beauty. #Unix #Retrocomputing #vt100

I've wanted a #vt100 since I found out about them many years ago, and I finally got one.
This one seems to have been built in 1980. It is in dire need of a good cleaning, but it powers on and provides a nice, clean picture. The keyboard seems fully functional. I don't think it has any of the options like current based comms but that's fine.
#Unix #RetroComputing

Leif Samuelsson Feb 23

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

Paul Flo Williams Feb 15

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

Rui Carmo Feb 14

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

moin

Feb 4

#Krita #VT100 #Dec #digital
#noai #aifree

phooky Jan 15

Hey, DEC enthusiasts-- I have a blown power supply from a VT102 sitting on a shelf. I haven't been able to diagnose it and I'm unlikely to do so in the future. Is anyone interested in taking it for parts? Happy to ship it within the US.

#retrocomputing #dec #vt100 #vt102

amen zwa, esq.Dec 31

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.