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Maybe it's just me but it doesn't quite look like what I remember 327X terminals looking...
by YZF 6y ago
Maybe it's just me but it doesn't quite look like what I remember 327X terminals looking...
- macjohnmcc 6y agoAnd without the incredibly loud noise when typing on those terminals it will never be close!
- m463 6y agocompared to an 029?
- protomyth 6y agoGotta admit I could fly on those model F keyboards but that thing was noisy especially at 3 in the morning.
- rbanffy 6y agoI must confess I miss the 110 baud cadenced hum (and typing) of the ASR-33 teletypes. Wish I could have one.
- Alex63 6y agoIf serious, I'm wondering if you were in the Canadian Armed Forces reserves when I was (early 80s). We were still using 33s. Remember the 'chadless' tapes? Good times. But dusty.
- rbanffy 6y agoNo. First time I met a 33 it was already quite obsolete. It was used as a terminal and paper tape drive for a CNC emulator that was used for teaching.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoI used to like the v loud VT100 key clicks but a bit distracting for others - not as much noise as a dual head daisy wheel printer or a real line printer
- abraae 6y agoI thought the same, but it's been a looong time. I remember the standard setup for a 3279 color terminal was to go through and align the red, blue and green guns at a number of points on the screen. When you had aligned them all, the target dot was white. It was very common to see badly aligned displays (some were hard to align in any case) where the letters had a pinkish shadow effect form misalignment of the guns. Good times.
- rbanffy 6y agoThe lowercase "s" is a bit different, but that's because I really dislike the 3279's "s".
- scionthefly 6y agoThat is the best font-nerd (positive connotation) statement I'll hear all day.
- kens 6y agoI was a bit suspicious, but I looked at an old IBM manual [1, page 23] and the characters match up. Keep in mind though, that the 3270 didn't display lower case, (until later dual-case models), so the examples don't look like the classic 3270. Also, characters were generated from a 7x9 matrix, not the smooth lines in the font. For those not familiar with old IBM systems, I'll point out that the 3270 is not a specific machine, but an "Information Display System", made up of various control units, display stations, and printers. As time went on, different models in the 3270 line appeared such as the color 3279 display with 4 color text, expandable to 7 colors. So there's not the "one true 3270 display". [1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/3270/GA27-2749-1_IBM_3270_Information_Display_System_Component_Description_Jun72.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/3270/GA27-2749-1_IBM_3270_I...
- rbanffy 6y agoAuthor here. The work started by tracing over bitmaps from x3270's fonts, which were originally created by copying pixels from a physical 3278-2 terminal screen. I tried to remain accurate, but allowed significant deviations for accented characters, which, in the originals, had letters vertically compressed to make room for the accent. There are also lots of glyphs that were never in a 3270 terminal.