Gregory's ServerAfter a ~year of development, the 1:3 scale working VT100 terminal is ready to go!
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https://transmutable.gumroad.com/l/small-vt-100/DingDangFriends
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It has a tiny working USB keyboard with ~80 keys. It has a cute little 3.5" display panel. It may be the cutest thing I've ever created but you tell me!
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To celebrate the completion of what turned out to be a bear of a project, for one week there's a $75 discount code for friends of smol retros: DINGDANGFRIENDS
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Ok, time for me to take a bath and weep for exhausted joy.
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@Professor_Stevens I used several reference photos of VT100 keyboards. What looks wrong? @Professor_Stevens Here's one example and all of the original layouts I find online are the same as this one. I did bump a few switches left or right so they fit but they're all where they were on the originals, relative to each other. That's my only critique. It's quite an impressive accomplishment. The PET was noteworthy for having the same checkerboard layout for its keys. @Professor_Stevens @trevorflowers That keyboard is as I remember from using the VT100. Trevor obviously had some constraints placed upon him in shrinking the design. @trevorflowers I sadly donβt have the space for this, but please accept my heartfelt swoon and congratulations on such a wonderful recreation. Congrats! I've got a vintage Epson with ICs damaged (I guess) I wish I could find its spare parts (I love the way it is at typing). I like old craps like that! Contrarily to you, I couldn't finish my 1st SINCLAIR...  @trevorflowers that'd look so cute with a little crt screen. hope eventually someone recovers the lost art of making them   Congratulations! I'd forgo the discount, if you would deign to ship to Germany. Just don't tell my brother. He told me not to buy any new hardware! (Edit: Sorry, checked my account, can't afford it ATM. If pressed, I'd probably go for the CM. Terrific Stuff! How can a body be so talented?)   @trevorflowers I had an original VT100 and an other model. I'm pretty sure I both took them to recycling when we moved home some 18 years ago.  @trevorflowers gods. i worked on one of those back in the... coff! coff! coff!'s back in the days where this UN*X thing was a commercial joke, some some guy from Finland released an OS named after himself, and ran on... PC's!!! i mean, as if...  |
@trevorflowers congratulations!π₯³π₯³π₯³