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Integrating a VT220 into my life
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Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#12I was discussing an identical project with a coworker a while back, and have been stalking ebay for VT2X0s occasionally since. However they seem to be incredibly rare in the UK, and all the listings shown require shipping from the US with monstrous fees. Although my idea was not necessarily integration in to my work flow, more a dashboard of network/server stats etc.
Author here. I got the pictured one refurbished through vecmar.com, and I just bought a second one on eBay (for use at home).
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#13Or you could just run cool-retro-term[1] for the similar visual effect. [1]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
Those examples all seem to have excessive bleed from the bright areas. If those were physical devices, I'd be turning down the brightness control immediately.
Anybody come up with a version for iOS or Android yet? Seeing it on a tablet would be a real juxtaposition.
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#15I had a Wyse dumb terminal attached to my main Linux workstation for a few years in the late 90s, back when such things were fairly easy to pick up for free.
Its not to be sneezed at for doing serious programming work. The green on black, text only CRT was super high contrast (especially compared to any modern LCD), and the complete lack of distractions that come with a multitasking desktop environment (email notifications, chat, web browsers, Facebook, etc) mean that it's productive for serious work, and pretty much only serious work. I'd happily do this again if I could get them for free, but paying shipping seems a bit much.
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#16I feel old; I used a Wyse 320 and later a VT220 as my sole / main IO device in 1995-96 - connected to a SPARCstation 10 via a multi-port serial box at 9600 baud, with heavy use of GNU Screen. Even now, I still use a variation on that - a tall terminal window, ssh, and screen - for the majority of my work.
I really liked the Wyse 320? and used it for years until CRT died. It seemed to have the most diverse emulation support. Same deal with vt320 and HP 700/96 I just got tried of working on the CRTs all the time. Now I just use ZOC.
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#17I can't remember the exact model number, but a company sold gas-plasma-discharge orange-on-black compact "flat panel" VT220 clones years ago. I owned one for a while before selling it off (along with a 19" gas plasma flat panel for a MicroVAX that I got at Goodwill for $25 - now THAT was a steal that I turned into a nice profit!).
Hmm, seem to recall Wyse had a gas-plasma display. The Googles do nothing to turn up a model #, though. Several vendors made them, with Wyse being the more popular brand IIRC, and early Toshiba laptops used them (had a 386 with a gas-plasma display).
Hah! Found my own email post in an google search.
Planar ELT320
http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/sunhelp/2004-January/019825...
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#18I want my VT50 back. 80x11, capitals only, and cool mechanical keys.
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#19I spent many allnighters on a Datapoint 3300 with TECO as the editor in the early '70s.
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computer...
Re: Integrating a VT220 into my life
#20I had a Wyse dumb terminal attached to my main Linux workstation for a few years in the late 90s, back when such things were fairly easy to pick up for free. Its not to be sneezed at for doing serious programming work. The green on black, text only CRT was super high contrast (especially compared to any modern LCD), and the complete lack of distractions that come with a multitasking desktop environment (email notific…
Is the contrast on an old CRT really better than on a modern LCD screen ? I find that a bit hard to believe but I certainly don't have any way to check. You could run a plain vanilla window manager with a single xterm if you want to avoid distractions.