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After a long hiatus, our KOPA d.d. 1000 (the DEC VT100 terminal marketed under the Slovenian brand) has come back to life!
Now available at the exhibition: print your ASCII portrait on continuous paper – for a keepsake, a gift, or to take home! 
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The DEC VT100 is a historically significant computer terminal. It was available in Slovenia under the name KOPA d.d. 1000. We obtained our specimen in 2006, and it is in working condition, but it lacked a keyboard. Now we've tracked one down and hope to try it out soon! 
The Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal is up and running!! 
The Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal (1976) looks like it's straight out of The Flintstones 
We received it 12 years ago from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and it dates back to the times before the influential VT100 terminal.
The DEC VT-52 terminal, assembled in Slovenia by the company Kopa under the name Kopa 700.
The computer-terminal dynamically-redefined-character-set (DRCS) technology could be used to create sprites.
I.e. the spites would be part of the soft-character-set.
And it could be extended to support other file data formats besides just sixels.
(The computer-terminal dynamically‐redefined‐character‐set (DRCS) technology is similar in idea of a unicode private‐use‐area.)
The Forgotten World of BBS Door Games
https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-forgotten-world-of-bbs-door-games
by @benjedwards
( #bbs #computerTerminal #doorGames #gaming #history #retroComputing #retroGaming #terminalEmulator #videoGames #vintageComputing #vintageGaming )
An important thing about many #ComputerTerminal is that — a lot of them (probably most) could only display text!, and only in a single color!
(Although I suppose it is 2 colors, if you also count the dark color of the screen.)
(And also, the 1 color of different Computer Terminals could be a different color from each other.)
So the Computer Terminal world was very monochromatic & text oriented!
Back in the 1990s it was not uncommon to still see Computer Terminals in use.
A #ComputerTerminal kind of looks like a computer; but they aren't computers.
You can kind of think of them as a combined monitor & keyboard.
They connected to a computer located somewhere else.
Sometimes many Computer Terminals connected to the same computer.
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For a long time, the de facto ‘text’ data format included the Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) control sequences.
In practice, SGR control sequences were as much ‘text’ as the carriage-return, form-feed, horizontal-tab, line-feed, vertical-tab control codes are ‘text’.
SGR control sequences gave us things such as — bold, color, italics, overlining, underlining, etc.