Video terminals at Slovenian Computer Museum: VT52/100/220/320/420/510 and more

Re:Video terminals at Slovenian Computer Museum: VT52/100/22... by Tepix on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:07PM (#26495540)

Very cool. I look forward to visiting it soon.

Some of these old serial terminals can do real graphics but the whole topic is rather obscure (which makes it more interesting i suppose).

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Re:Video terminals at Slovenian Computer Museum: VT52/100/22... by markostamcar on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:13PM (#26495612)

Author here. Thanks and welcome :)

Dynamically Redefined Character Set (DRCS) was introduced with DEC VT200 and even though online information is scarce, there is enough there to make it work on a real machine.

Even more interesting are the Yugoslavian/Slovenian video terminals with their own custom graphics modes and features - it is a lost art but we at the Museum are working on bringing it back!

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Re:Video terminals at Slovenian Computer Museum: VT52/100/22... by markostamcar on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:36PM (#26495871)

And there is also ReGIS / Remote Graphic Instruction Set by DEC - unfortunately none of our terminals support it.

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Re:Video terminals at Slovenian Computer Museum: VT52/100/22... by Tepix on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:00PM (#26496718)

Yesh, i think some xterm programs do support it and i remember toying around with it in the 90s. That stuff was already obscure even then.

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