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  cool-old-term Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-25 18:05 +0000
    Re:cool-old-term RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-28 20:52 +0000
      Re: cool-old-term Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-08-28 22:03 +0100
        Re: cool-old-term RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-28 21:05 +0000
        Re: cool-old-term Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2014-08-30 15:27 +0200
          Re: cool-old-term Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-08-30 15:07 +0100
        Re: cool-old-term Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2014-09-07 19:45 +0100

#4542 — cool-old-term

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-old-term/

   cool-old-term is a terminal emulator which tries to mimic the look and
   feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be
   eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.

   It now uses the Konsole engine which is powerful and mature.

   This terminal emulator requires Qt 5.2 or higher to run.

   ...

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#4574

Rich <rich@example.invalid> Wrote in message:
> https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-old-term/
> 
>    cool-old-term is a terminal emulator which tries to mimic the look and
>    feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be
>    eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.
> 
>    It now uses the Konsole engine which is powerful and mature.
> 
>    This terminal emulator requires Qt 5.2 or higher to run.
> 

I'm tempted by this thing.  But it seems to get /real/ street cred
 you should just access your Linux/BSD box over an old, amber
 monitor and have the real thing.  

Guess by today's standards those old monitors are probably energy
 sucks, no?  I've got to admit though, I found the amber very
 pleasing and easy on the eyes.

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#4578

RS Wood wrote:

> I'm tempted by this thing.

Does it have flicker, hum bars and a warm "bloom" around densely lit 
parts of the screen, does it bulge for large areas of inverse video? My 
favourite terminal back in the day was a Qume QVT102.

> But it seems to get /real/ street cred
>   you should just access your Linux/BSD box over an old, amber
>   monitor and have the real thing.

I chucked out an old green monitor and "Hercules" ISA card a while ago, 
still got a VT320 somwhere, probably parked on top of the VAXserver 3300.

>   sucks, no?  I've got to admit though, I found the amber very
>   pleasing and easy on the eyes.

The default colour is amber on my PuTTY ...

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#4579

Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> Wrote in message:
> 
> The default colour is amber on my PuTTY ...
> 
> 

Hey, I never looked into changing the colors on PuTTY.  I'll have
 to give it a try - thanks!
-- 

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#4599

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:03:12 +0100, Andy Burns
<usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:

> RS Wood wrote:
>
>> I'm tempted by this thing.
>
> Does it have flicker, hum bars and a warm "bloom" around densely lit 
> parts of the screen, does it bulge for large areas of inverse video? My 
> favourite terminal back in the day was a Qume QVT102.

Amber monitors didn't have much flicker, as far as I can tell they
used "slow" phosphors, and the background color (phosphor not
activated by the electron beam) was dark-amber, not black.
Up to a point, less contrast is less eye strain.
I still own a 1983(?) Ericsson PC-XT with its amber monitor, but I
don't use it anymore.

http://www.pc-museum.com/gallery/rcm-028.jpg



>> But it seems to get /real/ street cred
>>   you should just access your Linux/BSD box over an old, amber
>>   monitor and have the real thing.
>
> I chucked out an old green monitor and "Hercules" ISA card a while ago, 
> still got a VT320 somwhere, probably parked on top of the VAXserver 3300.
>
>>   sucks, no?  I've got to admit though, I found the amber very
>>   pleasing and easy on the eyes.
>
> The default colour is amber on my PuTTY ...
-- 
Kees Nuyt

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#4600

Kees Nuyt wrote:

> Amber monitors didn't have much flicker, as far as I can tell they
> used "slow" phosphors

True enough.

> I still own a 1983(?) Ericsson PC-XT with its amber monitor
> http://www.pc-museum.com/gallery/rcm-028.jpg

Yeah, installed a fair few of those, pretty decent clones at the time.

I think it was a grey imported one that only had a 2-pin main lead which 
gave me a half mains voltage zap when I was attaching an Ethernet 
T-piece to it ...

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#4741

On 2014-08-28 21:03:12 +0000, Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> said:

> RS Wood wrote:
> 
>> I'm tempted by this thing.
> 
> Does it have flicker, hum bars and a warm "bloom" around densely lit 
> parts of the screen, does it bulge for large areas of inverse video? My 
> favourite terminal back in the day was a Qume QVT102.

http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ (Mac - no relationship, not 
even a customer. Curious though).

Cheers,
Ian

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