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I sat in front of those things for the first 10 years of my programming life. I am not nostalgic for them. If you guys are so into retrocomputing, I might have
by superjan 5y ago
I sat in front of those things for the first 10 years of my programming life. I am not nostalgic for them.
If you guys are so into retrocomputing, I might have a teletype for you in the attic. Don’t forget to bring your noise cancelling headphones.
- Johnny555 5y agoI did too -- a mix of VT101's, IBM 3270's, VT-220's. Most of the VT-220's were green, but we had a few amber ones, which I preferred over green (it felt like such leading edge tech for some reason). We had a few demo units with a white phosphor, and they were amazing - you could use an escape sequence to turn on reverse video and tell yourself it was just like reading a piece of paper (it was not). I have a bit of nostalgia for those screens but wouldn't want to use one for more than a few minutes. But would love to have an old DEC VT-220 keyboard!
- Smoosh 5y agoHa ha. Chain printer goes Brrrrrrrrrrr.