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  • Re: Usecases beside mutt und irc

    From Phillip Helbig (undress to reply@21:1/5 to Michael Bierenfeld on Wed Mar 30 20:13:56 2022
    In article <a9c9dc38-e7ff-4292-bf0b-c1dc079d614dn@googlegroups.com>,
    Michael Bierenfeld <michael.bierenfeld@gmail.com> writes:

    My VT320 shines green and looks great like a DDR Computer (quote from
    our neighbour boy ... as if the cold war was not won with that :-) But
    .. what to do with this. Any suggestions appreciated

    Whatever you do, don't throw it away! I'm typing this on a white-text
    VT320. (I also have amber- and green-text (my favourite) ones.) I'm
    also using a newsreader on VMS.

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  • From Michael Bierenfeld@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 30 12:44:45 2022
    My VT320 shines green and looks great like a DDR Computer (quote from our neighbour boy ... as if the cold war was not won with that :-) But .. what to do with this. Any suggestions appreciated

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  • From Richard@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 1 23:55:54 2022
    [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

    Michael Bierenfeld <michael.bierenfeld@gmail.com> spake the secret code <a9c9dc38-e7ff-4292-bf0b-c1dc079d614dn@googlegroups.com> thusly:

    My VT320 shines green and looks great like a DDR Computer (quote from
    our neighbour boy ... as if the cold war was not won with that :-) But
    .. what to do with this. Any suggestions appreciated

    You could always try your hand at making some animations. <https://github.com/LegalizeAdulthood/vteffect>

    If you want to contribute code to that project, I'm happy to discuss
    the roadmap.

    Other things:
    - run simh and have a "trip back in time" to revisit minicomputer
    timesharing environments. <http://simh.trailing-edge.com/>

    - nethack/rogue/etc; a classic terminal hack-n-slash
    <https://www.nethack.org/>

    - interactive fiction games (Colossal Cave Adventure, Zork, etc.)
    <https://ifarchive.org/>

    - robots game (I think this is in most linux distros)

    - VT100 animations at textfiles.com <http://textfiles.com/art/>
    (the 'scat' program (slow cat) I wrote at the above github might be
    useful for playing these animations back at an expected baud rate)

    - play with figlet <http://www.figlet.org/>
    --
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    The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org>
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    Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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  • From Lars Brinkhoff@21:1/5 to Michael Bierenfeld on Sat Apr 2 06:21:46 2022
    Michael Bierenfeld wrote:
    But .. what to do with this. Any suggestions appreciated

    Have it run "Crock". Either the original PDP-10 program, or the
    port to the newfangled minicomputer language C.

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  • From Lars Brinkhoff@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 2 06:22:17 2022
    Have it run "Crock". Either the original PDP-10 program, or the
    port to the newfangled minicomputer language C.

    Oh, I forgot to say it displays a traditional clock face.

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  • From Jason McBrayer@21:1/5 to Michael Bierenfeld on Mon Apr 4 09:40:14 2022
    Michael Bierenfeld <michael.bierenfeld@gmail.com> writes:

    My VT320 shines green and looks great like a DDR Computer (quote from
    our neighbour boy ... as if the cold war was not won with that :-) But
    .. what to do with this. Any suggestions appreciated

    You can do almost anything in Emacs, and *most* things that you can do
    in Emacs, you can do in Emacs on a terminal. Email, Usenet, WWW, IRC,
    Matrix, Gemini, writing prose, poetry, and code of all kinds... If it's
    text, you can do it.

    --
    Jason McBrayer | “Strange is the night where black stars rise, jmcbray@carcosa.net | and strange moons circle through the skies,
    | but stranger still is lost Carcosa.”
    | ― Robert W. Chambers,The King in Yellow

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  • From Richard@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 4 16:06:04 2022
    [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

    Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> spake the secret code <7wa6d4huna.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> thusly:

    Have it run "Crock". Either the original PDP-10 program, or the
    port to the newfangled minicomputer language C.

    Oh, I forgot to say it displays a traditional clock face.

    Hadn't heard of it before, but I found this: <https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/pdp10-wall-crock>
    --
    "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline>
    The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org>
    The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org>
    Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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  • From Richard@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 4 16:11:28 2022
    [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

    (Richard) legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com spake the secret code <t2f51c$2gq4n$1@news.xmission.com> thusly:

    Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> spake the secret code ><7wa6d4huna.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> thusly:

    Have it run "Crock". Either the original PDP-10 program, or the
    port to the newfangled minicomputer language C.

    Oh, I forgot to say it displays a traditional clock face.

    Hadn't heard of it before, but I found this: ><https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/pdp10-wall-crock>

    Well duh, I see that is your repo Lars, LOL. I only just noticed it
    in the URL after I posted. I notice you don't have any source in that
    repo, but it shouldn't be too hard to code up as a basic curses
    application.
    --
    "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline>
    The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org>
    The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org>
    Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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  • From Lars Brinkhoff@21:1/5 to Richard on Tue Apr 5 05:53:21 2022
    Richard writes:
    Have it run "Crock". Either the original PDP-10 program, or the
    port to the newfangled minicomputer language C.
    Oh, I forgot to say it displays a traditional clock face.

    Hadn't heard of it before, but I found this: >><https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/pdp10-wall-crock>

    That's just an empty placeholder for a half-baked idea of mine.

    Here's a HTML rendition of the original PDP-10 program. http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/mit_emacs_170_teco_1220/01/emacs/crock.mid.html

    Here's a port to C:
    https://www.hack.org/mc/software/crock.c

    Actually it went PDP-10 assembler -> AmigaBasic -> C -> then back to
    PDP-10 C compilers, then Unix. Your terminal could be next in this
    esteemed pedigree!

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  • From Richard@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 6 22:10:28 2022
    [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

    Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> spake the secret code <7wwng4f54e.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> thusly:

    Here's a port to C:
    https://www.hack.org/mc/software/crock.c

    Zoinks. What's the tab size on this file? Seems inconsistent no
    matter whether I choose 3, 4, or 8, although 3 seems most closely
    match the existing indents.
    --
    "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline>
    The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org>
    The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org>
    Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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  • From Richard@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 6 22:14:40 2022
    [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

    I added that source file and made a pull request back to your repo :)
    --
    "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline>
    The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org>
    The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org>
    Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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  • From Lars Brinkhoff@21:1/5 to Richard on Thu Apr 7 09:59:34 2022
    Richard wrote:
    I added that source file and made a pull request back to your repo :)

    Thanks! I suppose it's good to have an extra copy for archiving.

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  • From Richard@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 7 20:49:15 2022
    [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

    Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> spake the secret code <7wlewhdxix.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> thusly:

    Richard wrote:
    I added that source file and made a pull request back to your repo :)

    Thanks! I suppose it's good to have an extra copy for archiving.

    Yeah, stuff has a tendency to disappear...
    --
    "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline>
    The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org>
    The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org>
    Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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