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I love old terminals. I used to sit at the ones in the library for ages (I often managed to 'escape' into the data controller somehow :P ). And at college, all
by wkat4242 3y ago
I love old terminals. I used to sit at the ones in the library for ages (I often managed to 'escape' into the data controller somehow :P ). And at college, all the X-Terminals were often occupied because they were the only way to run NSCA Mosaic to see this cool new "Internet" stuff. Meaning the rooms full of green screen terminals were completely deserted. I usually took two for myself (This was before I learned of Gnu Screen and tmux lol)
I still have my own VT520 <3 Not getting rid of it (my girlfriend keeps asking why do I keep that old thing around, grrr)
- Aloha 3y agoMy WYSE 180E is still sitting in the garage for much the same reasons. I used that every day as my daily driver terminal for 10-12 years - I got it was what was effectively NOS, so zero hours on the tube. I've not turned it on I think in 8 or 10 years. I'll drag it out once I clean up the garage this summer.
- wkat4242 3y agoYeah my VT520 is also very clean. Unfortunately though it's one of the later ones sold by Boundless. The same thing but not the DEC logo, and that matters a bit. App support is pretty horrible these days though. Most apps don't bother reading termcap/terminfo anymore and just blast Xterm whatever to the terminal :) That makes the functionality a bit limited. I did some of my best work on those terminals though. Especially because they didn't have a browser. Very distraction-free. I can see why this works out so wel for people like George R.R. Martin.
- Aloha 3y agoPutting screen in the middle is actually the fix for that - Screen has been very good for me at acting as a decent translation layer for misbehaving apps.
- wkat4242 3y agoHuh I never thought of that. Thanks!!
- Aloha 3y agoIts one of the two reasons I've never switched to tmux - the other is habit, I have a well formed .screenrc and I'm used to it.
- wkat4242 3y agoI was a screen holdout for a long time too but in the end tmux won me over :) But I still know screen very well. So tmux doesn't do this well either? Too bad. I'm not surprised screen does it well though, with its long history. By the way one thing that's a bit sad about the VT520 is that it looks really boring. It has a standard "VGA Monitor from the 90s" look. The great thing is that it takes standard PS/2 keyboards unlike the previous special ones. But the VT220 and VT320 looked much cooler. Not to mention the VT05 by the way, that was straight out of star trek <3 It was deep as hell though, no way that would fit on a modern desk. It didn't even have a CPU, it was full of boards of discrete logic.
- Aloha 3y agotmux might work - I tested early with tmux but the last time I bothered was pre-1.0 versions of tmux. Screen supports it well, but tmux is probably worth testing.
- throwawayForMe2 3y agoI spent a number of years pounding out code on 327x terminals. They were built like tanks.
- Aloha 3y agoI'd love an actual 327x family terminal - they're very well build, and the inbuilt font set is rather visually appealing.
- rbanffy 3y agoSomeday I need to procure a VT oh Wyse capable of Tektronix graphics to serve as a reference for a project I’m doing, but they aren’t easy to find on this side of the Atlantic.