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Show 086: My Favorite Terminals

May 14, 200725 min
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10 Characters Per Second - Terminal Velocity.

Welcome to Show 086!  This week's topic: My Favorite Terminals!

Zork, on a cell phone?  Yep, check it out here...
Erik Klein's Vintage Computers site - a great resource, and be sure to check out the forums!
Wikipedia's page on the ASR33 terminal (be sure to check out the bigger picture that they link to...)
Another good info resource on the ASR33, on the PDP8.net site!
The DECwriter II LA36 - now that's my kind of printing terminal.  Here's some DECwriter II info on the columbia.edu site...
A really nice picture of the DECwriter on the tonh.net site!
Yet more info and some recollections of the DECwriter on the everything2.com site...
The VT100?  Historic, for sure.  Here's some history on the vt100.net site!
You can also find very nice VT writeups here, and here.

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

Thanks for listening!

- Earl


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