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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414804 is a reply to message #414799] Sat, 18 June 2022 22:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Joe Pfeiffer is currently offline  Joe Pfeiffer
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Freddy1X <freddy1X@indyX.netX> writes:

> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> I wrote a terminal emulator that ran on Datapoint workstations once...
>> it turned out there was an array of pointers, one for each line of
>> text to display (graphics? Surely you jest. This was a business
>> machine). Things like scrolling were much quicker than they'd have been
>> if I'd actually had to move the text around.
>
> Was that on a 2200/5500/6600 series, or a 1500, or an 1800/3800 series.
> Maybe I forgot some of them.

I'm thinking it was on a 2200 series, but I couldn't swear to it. It
was 1980....
Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414812 is a reply to message #414804] Sun, 19 June 2022 18:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

> Freddy1X <freddy1X@indyX.netX> writes:
>
>> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>>
>>> I wrote a terminal emulator that ran on Datapoint workstations once...
>>> it turned out there was an array of pointers, one for each line of
>>> text to display (graphics? Surely you jest. This was a business
>>> machine). Things like scrolling were much quicker than they'd have been
>>> if I'd actually had to move the text around.
>>
>> Was that on a 2200/5500/6600 series, or a 1500, or an 1800/3800 series.
>> Maybe I forgot some of them.
>
> I'm thinking it was on a 2200 series, but I couldn't swear to it. It
> was 1980....

In 1980 I believe that the 2200 & 1100 were the only processors that
Datapoint had out at the time. Your view was 12 rows of 80 characters each.
Invariably green phosphor. ISTR that the 1100s were paired up with 8"
diskette drives, ant the 2200 used dual cassette decks.

Was the display board the serial or RAM version?
The serial display board had a bizarre way of updating the displayed
characters depending on how the program ran it. And it was SLOW. So much
so that when I had to run diagnostics on the tape decks, I would swap in the
RAM display board just so that I could be done in a reasonable time.

I never got to play with them for any length of time because I was a 1 man
remote office, driving to location as repair service was needed.

Freddy,
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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414822 is a reply to message #414771] Tue, 21 June 2022 16:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Wed, 15 Jun 2022 20:55:19 -0000 (UTC)
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> schrieb:
> On 2022-06-15, Jan van den Broek <fortytwo@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> Like I said, I'm not looking to buy anything yet but if you have any
>>> suggestions on what to keep an eye out for, please let me know.
>>
>> Not a dumb terminal, I'm using a 386sx (MS-DOS 5.0) with Telix.
>
> How's its performance?

Depending on what you want. I'm using it at 19200, which is fast enough
for me. I mainly use it for editing, compiling, usenet.

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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414823 is a reply to message #414509] Tue, 21 June 2022 16:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Wed, 18 May 2022 11:33:08 -0400
Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> schrieb:
> On Wed, 18 May 2022 00:09:54 -0000 (UTC), Chris Adams wrote:
>>
>> Note that the Pi serial port is not going to work directly on a classic
>> terminal. The Pi signalling is not RS-232 (typically +12/-12V IIRC) but
>> 3.3V/0V. Sending more than 3.3V into a Pi serial pin will fry it.
>>
>> There are pre-made Pi-to-USB serial adapters for connecting to a PC, but
>> I don't know if there are pre-made Pi-to-read-RS-232 adapters.
>
> Curious, somebody threw out a 2011 LED TV. One jack on the backside is
> labeled RS-232. What would you do with that on a TV?

Turning it on and off, switching input, changing channels/volume/etc.
At a ppoe we were maintaing a narrowcasting application, rs232 was used
at lot.

> It also had some USB jacks; that I can understand.
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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414829 is a reply to message #414822] Wed, 22 June 2022 19:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: John Goerzen

On 2022-06-21, Jan van den Broek <fortytwo@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Wed, 15 Jun 2022 20:55:19 -0000 (UTC)
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> schrieb:
>> On 2022-06-15, Jan van den Broek <fortytwo@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>>> Like I said, I'm not looking to buy anything yet but if you have any
>>>> suggestions on what to keep an eye out for, please let me know.
>>>
>>> Not a dumb terminal, I'm using a 386sx (MS-DOS 5.0) with Telix.
>>
>> How's its performance?
>
> Depending on what you want. I'm using it at 19200, which is fast enough
> for me. I mainly use it for editing, compiling, usenet.

I'm trying to remember my days of a 386SX/25 in OS/2. My speeds then were
probably limited by my modem (33.6 at best). I don't recall any obvious PC-side
slowdowns like I see on the vt510.

Also trying to remember the days of a 7.16MHz 8088ish DOS box. I guess I didn't
have a modem faster than 2400bps in those days. Still, I think it was able to
run LapLink at 115200 but I may be somewhat mistaken about that, and that may be
a different problem to ANSI video processing too.

I may have to give this a try one of these days.

John
Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414830 is a reply to message #414812] Wed, 22 June 2022 23:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Freddy1X <freddy1X@indyX.netX> writes:

> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> Freddy1X <freddy1X@indyX.netX> writes:
>>
>>> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wrote a terminal emulator that ran on Datapoint workstations once...
>>>> it turned out there was an array of pointers, one for each line of
>>>> text to display (graphics? Surely you jest. This was a business
>>>> machine). Things like scrolling were much quicker than they'd have been
>>>> if I'd actually had to move the text around.
>>>
>>> Was that on a 2200/5500/6600 series, or a 1500, or an 1800/3800 series.
>>> Maybe I forgot some of them.
>>
>> I'm thinking it was on a 2200 series, but I couldn't swear to it. It
>> was 1980....
>
> In 1980 I believe that the 2200 & 1100 were the only processors that
> Datapoint had out at the time. Your view was 12 rows of 80 characters each.
> Invariably green phosphor. ISTR that the 1100s were paired up with 8"
> diskette drives, ant the 2200 used dual cassette decks.

They had introduced their ARCNET network at that point (probably the
major reason they were picked), so I don't recall any local disk or
cassette storage at all.

> Was the display board the serial or RAM version?

I have no recollection whatever. I don't even remember that there was a
choice.
Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414832 is a reply to message #414829] Thu, 23 June 2022 03:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 23:56:58 -0000 (UTC)
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:

> I'm trying to remember my days of a 386SX/25 in OS/2. My speeds then were
> probably limited by my modem (33.6 at best). I don't recall any obvious
> PC-side slowdowns like I see on the vt510.

PCs tended to come with a buffered UART that cut down the interrupt
rate no end.

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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414836 is a reply to message #414829] Thu, 23 June 2022 11:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Kurt Weiske

To: John Goerzen
-=> John Goerzen wrote to alt.folklore.computers <=-

JG> I'm trying to remember my days of a 386SX/25 in OS/2. My speeds then
JG> were probably limited by my modem (33.6 at best). I don't recall any
JG> obvious PC-side slowdowns like I see on the vt510.

I ran OS/2 2.1 on a PS/2 model 80 baxk in 1991-92, but I think I only had a
2400 baud modem back then. OS/2 could multitask well, though - I could call
my BBS, connect to a MS Lan Manager network and share my files, connect to a
AS/400 terminal session via twinax, and run Word and Excel natively - with 8
MB of RAM!

JG> Also trying to remember the days of a 7.16MHz 8088ish DOS box. I guess
JG> I didn't have a modem faster than 2400bps in those days. Still, I
JG> think it was able to run LapLink at 115200 but I may be somewhat
JG> mistaken about that, and that may be a different problem to ANSI video
JG> processing too.

It was all about the UART with AT-class machines. With my BBS, I had a
socketed serial card and swapped out an 8250 for a 16550 UART and could run
14.4 all day long. I don't recall if my serial card was 8-bit or 16-bit, and
am unsure if an 8-bit card would be the bottleneck on an XT-class machine.


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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414837 is a reply to message #414832] Thu, 23 June 2022 12:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Kurt Weiske

To: Ahem A Rivet's Shot
-=> Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote to alt.folklore.computers <=-

AAS> PCs tended to come with a buffered UART that cut down the
AAS> interrupt rate no end.

Cheap cards typically came with an 8250 or 16450 UART, which had (I think) a
2-byte buffer. You'd need to either spend more to get a card with a 16550
(16-byte buffer) or if you were lucky, upgrade your existing (socketed) card
by swapping out the UART chip.

The 16450 was pretty much useless above 9600 baud.


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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414846 is a reply to message #414836] Fri, 24 June 2022 08:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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"Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-11mi-this> writes:
> To: John Goerzen
> -=> John Goerzen wrote to alt.folklore.computers <=-
>
> JG> I'm trying to remember my days of a 386SX/25 in OS/2. My speeds then
> JG> were probably limited by my modem (33.6 at best). I don't recall any
> JG> obvious PC-side slowdowns like I see on the vt510.
>
> I ran OS/2 2.1 on a PS/2 model 80 baxk in 1991-92, but I think I only had a
> 2400 baud modem back then. OS/2 could multitask well, though - I could call
> my BBS, connect to a MS Lan Manager network and share my files, connect to a
> AS/400 terminal session via twinax, and run Word and Excel natively - with 8
> MB of RAM!
>
> JG> Also trying to remember the days of a 7.16MHz 8088ish DOS box. I guess
> JG> I didn't have a modem faster than 2400bps in those days. Still, I
> JG> think it was able to run LapLink at 115200 but I may be somewhat
> JG> mistaken about that, and that may be a different problem to ANSI video
> JG> processing too.
>
> It was all about the UART with AT-class machines. With my BBS, I had a
> socketed serial card and swapped out an 8250 for a 16550 UART and could run
> 14.4 all day long. I don't recall if my serial card was 8-bit or 16-bit, and
> am unsure if an 8-bit card would be the bottleneck on an XT-class machine.

The 16550 or 16450? The 16550 came later and added a 16 byte FIFO for
inbound characters; the 16450 supported higher data rates than the 8250,
but ultimately was bounded by interrupt service routine performance.
Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414849 is a reply to message #414846] Fri, 24 June 2022 09:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:52:31 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:

> The 16550 or 16450? The 16550 came later and added a 16 byte FIFO for
> inbound characters;

Then the 16550A came out with the bugs fixed. With them on two 16
port cards I managed to run 32 modems at 19200 on a 50MHz 486 without
dropping a byte.

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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414857 is a reply to message #414832] Thu, 23 June 2022 10:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:

> On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 23:56:58 -0000 (UTC)
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to remember my days of a 386SX/25 in OS/2. My speeds then were
>> probably limited by my modem (33.6 at best). I don't recall any obvious
>> PC-side slowdowns like I see on the vt510.
>
> PCs tended to come with a buffered UART that cut down the interrupt
> rate no end.

Did they? I remember buying an ISA card by SIIG with the 16550 UART that
had the huge 16 byte buffer back in 1993 when I got a 14400 bps
modem. With the V.42bis compression I think you could have at least 2x
compression so double data rate over the serial link. Might've had a 486
by then though.

In my computers the built in ports had just the no buffer
16450s. Same with the multi-I/O boards (2xserial, 1xparallel, 2xIDE on
single board).

Maybe the buffered UARTs were common later? I moved away from modems to
ISDN (ISA card) around 1996 or 1997, then ADSL (PCI card) and then
mostly ethernet for communication.
Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414858 is a reply to message #414857] Sat, 25 June 2022 13:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:28:49 +0300
Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:

> Maybe the buffered UARTs were common later? I moved away from modems to
> ISDN (ISA card) around 1996 or 1997, then ADSL (PCI card) and then
> mostly ethernet for communication.

They started to get common around 1994/5 - along with the rise in
fast modem use.

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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414860 is a reply to message #414857] Sat, 25 June 2022 14:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> writes:
> Did they? I remember buying an ISA card by SIIG with the 16550 UART that
> had the huge 16 byte buffer back in 1993 when I got a 14400 bps
> modem. With the V.42bis compression I think you could have at least 2x
> compression so double data rate over the serial link. Might've had a 486
> by then though.
>
> In my computers the built in ports had just the no buffer
> 16450s. Same with the multi-I/O boards (2xserial, 1xparallel, 2xIDE on
> single board).
>
> Maybe the buffered UARTs were common later? I moved away from modems to
> ISDN (ISA card) around 1996 or 1997, then ADSL (PCI card) and then
> mostly ethernet for communication.

1993, had left IBM ... and was doing work from home. I got offer to do
modem drivers (unix, windows, dos) for PAGESAT in return for downlink
with full netnews feed. I had a RS6000/320 and SGI Indy on my desk and
couple 486 machines (one running waffle, bulletin board software that I
made the netnews feed available on) ... had 16550 UART boards. Also
wrote article on modem drivers & pagesat for boardwatch magazine (had a
picture of me in backyard with PAGESAT dish). Started out 9600, but they
had to double it to 19.2 with increase in images (and there were
periodic further increases).

16550
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16550_UART
Pagesat
http://www.art.net/lile/pagesat/netnews.html
Pagesat at 115.2kbps
http://www.art.net/lile/ncit/service.html
Boardwatch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardwatch
Waffle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_(BBS_software)

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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414872 is a reply to message #414849] Sat, 25 June 2022 12:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Kurt Weiske

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AAS> Then the 16550A came out with the bugs fixed. With them on two
AAS> 16 port cards I managed to run 32 modems at 19200 on a 50MHz 486
AAS> without dropping a byte.

Digiboards! Those things were awesome.

I ran a store POS system back in the day running Excellenet WAN software.
the hub ran on a 486 running OS/2, the store cash registers either ran OS/2
or DOS. Every night as the stores closed they'd shut down the registers,
close out the tills, and the register would "phone home", sending store
sales, credit card sales info, employee payroll and inventory figures, and
the hub would send back data updates and new price lookup files for the
registers.

I was running a dial-up BBS back then, the store-and-forward topology was
reminiscent of Fidonet. I'd often thought you could do the same thing with a
Fido mailer and save a ton of money.

The batch files running the stores were written in DOS Batch or REXX,
meaning if you fat-fingered an update, you were walking a non-technical
store manager through using a line editor over the phone to make the fix.

At certain times of the day, I'd have 32 14.4 multitech modems lit and
transferring files, and it worked like a charm.


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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414885 is a reply to message #414872] Mon, 27 June 2022 13:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Sat, 25 Jun 2022 09:50:00 -0700
"Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-tq0-this> wrote:

> To: Ahem A Rivet's Shot
> -=> Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote to alt.folklore.computers <=-
>
> AAS> Then the 16550A came out with the bugs fixed. With them on
> AAS> two 16 port cards I managed to run 32 modems at 19200 on a 50MHz 486
> AAS> without dropping a byte.
>
> Digiboards! Those things were awesome.

Correct, they were indeed Digiboards.

> At certain times of the day, I'd have 32 14.4 multitech modems lit and
> transferring files, and it worked like a charm.

It happened at 6pm on the dot every day for me, when the evening
cheap phone rate cut in - I was running a dial-up ISP.

I was once in Demon's Finchley office at 6pm and got to see their
bank of modems (90 or so at the time IIRC all running on a Sun box with
SCSI attached serial[1] ports) suddenly light up in a ripple across the
rack right on the dot of 6pm.

[1] Of course these days we have serial attached SCSI.

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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
> [1] Of course these days we have serial attached SCSI.

trivia: circa 1990 , IBM Hursley did 9333, SCSI disk drives ... with
serial copper running packetized SCSI protocol, originally was
80mbits/sec full duplex (160mbits/sec aggregate). 1988, I was asked to
work with LLNL on standardizing some of serial stuff they were playing
with, quickly becomes fibre channel standard (initially 1gbit, full
duplex, 2gbit, 200GBYTE) I had hoped that 9333 could morpth into
interoperable 1/8 & 1/4 speed FCS, but instead it morphs into SSA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Storage_Architecture

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Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414910 is a reply to message #414836] Thu, 30 June 2022 00:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: John Goerzen

On 2022-06-23, Kurt Weiske <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-11mi-this> wrote:
> AS/400 terminal session via twinax, and run Word and Excel natively - with 8

"twinax". Now there's a word I haven't seen, in that context, for awhile.

I worked for a manufacturing company that finally got off the AS/400 in 2005.
That twinax was never removed from the walls, and it is the kind of stout stuff
that will probably be around until the sun goes nova...

I had a real moment of confusion when I first heard of Twinax being used for
10Gb copper Ethernet. Weird echoes, that.

John
Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #414965 is a reply to message #414849] Mon, 04 July 2022 17:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Vir Campestris

On 24/06/2022 14:20, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:52:31 GMT
> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:
>
>> The 16550 or 16450? The 16550 came later and added a 16 byte FIFO for
>> inbound characters;
>
> Then the 16550A came out with the bugs fixed. With them on two 16
> port cards I managed to run 32 modems at 19200 on a 50MHz 486 without
> dropping a byte.
>

I ran 4 channels on a '186 along with networking once on an embedded
system. No problem at all.

The problem wasn't handling the interrupts, it wass coexisting with
someone else's software that goes non-interruptible.

Andy
Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #416478 is a reply to message #414532] Sun, 04 September 2022 17:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Bud Frede

Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> writes:

> On Tue, 17 May 2022 10:47:20 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>
>
>> Can't imagine actually wanting a tube CRT in my house.
>
> One of the current hot nerd topics is the idea of putting together retro-
> futuristic cyberdeck devices as secondary or project devices. Cyberdecks
> are machines with tiny lcd screens with nearly full sized keyboards.

I would think that a cyberdeck would be no good without a set of 'trodes
to induct the display right into your brain? :-)

A computer with a nearly full-sized keyboard but an unusably small LCD
display doesn't sound like much fun to me. What am I missing?
Re: Best dumb terminal for serial connections [message #416479 is a reply to message #416478] Sun, 04 September 2022 18:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Johnny Billquist

On 2022-09-04 23:00, Bud Frede wrote:
> Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 17 May 2022 10:47:20 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Can't imagine actually wanting a tube CRT in my house.
>>
>> One of the current hot nerd topics is the idea of putting together retro-
>> futuristic cyberdeck devices as secondary or project devices. Cyberdecks
>> are machines with tiny lcd screens with nearly full sized keyboards.
>
> I would think that a cyberdeck would be no good without a set of 'trodes
> to induct the display right into your brain? :-)
>
> A computer with a nearly full-sized keyboard but an unusably small LCD
> display doesn't sound like much fun to me. What am I missing?

Queue Terry Gilliam... Hello fresnel lens. :-D

Johnny
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On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 00:01:04 +0200, Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
wrote:
> On 2022-09-04 23:00, Bud Frede wrote:
>> Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, 17 May 2022 10:47:20 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Can't imagine actually wanting a tube CRT in my house.
>>>
>>> One of the current hot nerd topics is the idea of putting together retro-
>>> futuristic cyberdeck devices as secondary or project devices. Cyberdecks
>>> are machines with tiny lcd screens with nearly full sized keyboards.
>>
>> I would think that a cyberdeck would be no good without a set of 'trodes
>> to induct the display right into your brain? :-)
>>
>> A computer with a nearly full-sized keyboard but an unusably small LCD
>> display doesn't sound like much fun to me. What am I missing?
>
> Queue Terry Gilliam... Hello fresnel lens. :-D
>
> Johnny

If you want to see small lcd screens and a large keyboard:

https://www.adafruit.com/

--
Jim
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