It’s quite probable that any of you who have built a keyboard will have done so using a matrix of keys connected to a microcontroller, or if you are old-school, a microprocessor. A CPU can scan the ...

I'm kind of on an ASCII kick this weekend. Having already brought you ASCII banners, I thought I'd follow that up with ASCII video playback. Apple's ASCII Movie Player, which you can download here, ...

The encoded characters are decoded by the electromagnet and printed on paper. CuriousMarc first decided to create a mechanism to send characters from a computer to a typewriter. Consider how to mount ...

How do I set up a dumb terminal under linux? Particularly a link MC5.<BR>I have a terminal connected to an Arnet Multiport 8 board. What is the baud? Handshaking? Emulation? I'm a noob at linux, but I ...

We have it pretty good today with our mechanical keyboards, fast processors, and high resolution displays, but if you want to go old school—and I mean really old school—try turning a 1930s era ...

Bottom line: Repurposing obsolete hardware is a popular pastime among the tech community, and the latest project from the YouTube channel Artillect is a fine example of what's possible when thinking ...

I'm trying to get Python's ncurses module to display extended ASCII characters, similar to those found here. I've written a little test program to try and output these characters, but I'm having ...

At some point or another, many of us have tried to see how much of our digital lives could be accessed from the comfort of a terminal. We’ve tried Alpine for email, W3M for web browsing, and even ...

An interesting new chat client has been spotted today. The old-school style video chat app has appeared as a download on Github recently and is able to render its users in glorious text based images.