From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 12:26:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8437E37B403 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5CJQUJ51647; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:26:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3B266CE6.F6B1B8D7@nisser.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:26:30 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Jason Halbert , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi References: <001001c0f2fa$dca1a220$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > ... > One of the most interesting terminals I ever saw was this little match-box > sized > project that either Popular Electronics or someone like that made up once > that > consisted of a grid of little tiny LEDs that did something like a 40x10 > character > matrix. I don't remember if it actually handled any kind of term emulation > but > it was pretty amazing what people would come up with. Doesn't ring a bell. Mind you, it could only include terminal emulation if it needed a CPU, RAM and an EPROM. And came with an assembler listing. Better have an EPROM burner handy . I don't remember the LEDs being *that* small 20 or so years ago. With a 5 x 7 character matrix you would get quite a, hm, readable display :). Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message