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  • rbanffy 20 days ago | parent | on: Wanted: CIT-102 keyboard
    The connector and number make it sound like it's compatible with a DEC VT-100 (or, better, 102) terminal. You might have better luck with DEC parts.
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  • rbanffy 20 days ago | parent | on: Wanted: CIT-102 keyboard
    Not sure we are allowed, but, if we do, I've been looking for a graphics-capable VT-200 (or later, compatible, etc) for quite some time.
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  • rbanffy 98 days ago | parent | on: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3
    Quite frankly, I'd love it more if it were just a USB keyboard. I could use it for my day-to-day work and, occasionally, enjoy games on an emulator.
    • zxm 97 days ago
      same, i'd love one but just don't have the space for another computer in a tiny space. will just have to stick with speccy emulators. but as soon as i have the space i'll get one in a heartbeat.
  • rbanffy 109 days ago | parent | on: 10 Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn’t Make It
    I miss Publish It from that list. It was impossibly good on the Apple //e
    • ohjeez 108 days ago
      It leaves out Framemaker, which was... a thing.
      • bmonkey325 106 days ago
        FrameMaker never went away. It was just subsumed by a sea of Microsoft Word being used inappropriately. Where I work I think we last updated during the pandemic.

        https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/framemaker.html

    • bmonkey325 108 days ago
      Yes. Newsroom by springboard was popular in Toronto as I was heading to university in mid 80s.
  • rbanffy 144 days ago | parent | on: The Manx catalog website knows about 22,060 comput...
    Is there an easy way to mirror it?
    • viler 144 days ago
      I suppose it can be crawled like any other website, since it's a collection of links - manx-docs doesn't host any of the manuals.

      As such it can be bitten by the usual link rot problem, but at least it has multiple links for each entry, which should minimize that. Where no digitized copies are known to exist, the entry is listed without links - but that's still a good thing to have, for those with the means to do something about it.

  • rbanffy 155 days ago | parent | on: The Golden Age of computer user groups
    > piracy

    Off-site backups, please.

  • rbanffy 253 days ago | parent | on: Whatever Happened to Unix Workstations?
    Technically, nothing. Apple still makes them. And they sell quite well.
  • rbanffy 384 days ago | parent | on: Welcome to the terminals wiki!
    Who manages the website and how can someone contribute to it?
    • bmonkey325 383 days ago
      I found this page to request an account

      http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/wiki-account.html

  • rbanffy 397 days ago | parent | on: A ZX Spectrum in the Palm of Your Hand
    It could have an HDMI or DisplayPort connector though.
  • rbanffy 397 days ago | parent | on: Unicode 16.0: Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplem...
    You’ll need the right font for that. I don’t think terminals will support most of those (VTE will probably support the new 2x4 mosaics)
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