[rescue] Anyone build this kit?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Oct 1 22:04:29 CDT 2021


   That does look fantastic.  We should hack on that.

          -Dave

On 10/1/21 9:02 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> The "notcurses" (https://notcurses.com/) library and a few others, have support for Sixel graphics.
> 
> The demos look pretty nutty, with display of JPG/PNG graphics in the terminal etc. ...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 1, 2021 6:00:00 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Anyone build this kit?
> 
>     "Better" depends on the metric.  The 340 is slower than the 420, and
> it consumes a lot more power.  I think it's fairer to say that they're
> just "different".
> 
>                -Dave
> 
> On 10/1/21 5:00 PM, John Hudak wrote:
>> IIRC, I'd say the vt340 was 'better' than the 420.
>> The 420 was a replacement to the 320 and it added multi-session
>> capabilities.
>> There were no color or graphics-capable 400 series terminals.
>> The VT340 added support for ReGIS and Sixel graphics and color.
>> I think the 500 (520?) was (was suppose to be?) the uber 340. I got
>> diverted from DEC terminals around the time the 520 was announced and never
>> followed the progression if any, after that.
>> J
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:47 PM Joshua D. Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On October 1, 2021 4:42:58 PM EDT, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 10/1/21 4:34 PM, Barry Keeney wrote:
>>>>>> It's a placeholder for me - I've got a couple of those great Dec
>>> Terminal
>>>>>> bases that took a VGA monitor and ps/2(?) keyboard, (VT520?) but I
>>> can't
>>> put
>>>>>> my hands on them...
>>>>>
>>>>>    B B  I remember those, They came out after DEC moved production from
>>> the
>>>>> plant in my home town to Mexico... Quality went to SH*T and sales nose
>>>>> dived. They moved it back but too late to restore their rep...
>>>>
>>>>    I think Lionel is talking about the VT525.  They are crap, but better
>>> than
>>> nothing.  The VT420 was, IMO, their last good terminal.
>>>
>>> Was the VT420 better than the VT340? I thought the VT525 was supposed to
>>> have
>>> the features of the VT340.while adding the ability to use an LCD and
>>> connect
>>> to 4 machines. It is sad to hear it was bad as I had been wanting one.
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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