Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:26:30 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Jason Halbert <jason@jason-n3xt.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi Message-ID: <3B266CE6.F6B1B8D7@nisser.com> References: <001001c0f2fa$dca1a220$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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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 <g>. 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
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