#Retrocomputing people: once again, I am asking you to add #AltText when you post an image of your #RetroBattleStation. Alt text helps blind and low vision people, but it also helps retro weirdos like me: a significant proportion of the time I spend online is logged into a #VT420, and I have no way of looking at your picture without sending the url to another computer and looking at it later. Think of the weirdos!

Just found out that #Emacs has a bunch of settings for approximating #Unicode characters in a #Latin1 environment, like my #VT420. Nice! I can do better than showing character codes or tofu!

#DesktopFriday #Emacs #Elpher #GNUScreen #VT420

Ahah! A vintage DEC #VT420 #terminal! It turns on and runs through the setup software perfectly, and the amber CRT is *gorgeous*.

Now I just have to wait for my USB serial controller and RS232 to DEC MMJ adapter and cables to arrive...

Of course I had to log on to Mastodon on the #DEC #VT420 - maybe someday I'll make it prettier but it works.

#retrocomputing

a toot from a ~1982 Hazeltine Esprit III terminal connected to a #raspberrypi. Thanks @cognitivegears for the idea (check out his #dec #vt420 post).

What it looks like to toot from a #dec #vt420 (using a #raspberrypi for the command line.)

Obligitory toot from a #digital #vt420. Trying out the amazing toot command line project. Check it out at https://github.com/ihabunek/toot

@Swimming@fosstodon.org I seem to be the only one that has no idea what you were up to before, so maybe someone can clue me in. But, #CRT ? What kind? I seem to have started a collection of #DEC #serial #terminals - I've got a #vt510, some #vt420 units, and a #Wyse even.

Steve's Music Store in Montreal would approve of the #Demosplash2017 check-in setup. #VT420 #demoscene https://metalhead.club/media/fz_3Vhw5BRS_7D7kXPA