Tuesday, June 30, 2020

The 3179 terminal has arrived! Some bad news as well

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The third time on the truck is the lucky trip, as the box was delivered at noon today. The packaging was intact and the terminal inside was ...

Simple solution to the wrap around buffer problem

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THE CHALLENGE My buffer is 2000 characters, with the first 80 reserved for the status line at the bottom of the screen. The remaining 1920 c...

3178 terminal code fleshed out including shadow buffer

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SHADOW BUFFER I created a Buffer class that maintains a 2000 character buffer. My code in terminal now writes to the buffer object for inser...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Continuing to update my terminal code to better emulate the 3174-3178 behavior

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While I am waiting for Andrew Kay to make some modifications in his oec 3174 emulator project necessary to support the keyboard on my termin...

New Apollo items loaned to me including a late model EL panel

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The collector who had loaned the three Apollo items to me for my display project brought over three more yesterday! I have a later model Ele...
Friday, June 26, 2020

A session playing with the quick and dirty 3174 connected to the 3178 terminal

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I made use of my quick and dirty program to write some initial content into the regen buffer for display. It consists of four fields, two pr...

A tale of two buffers - 3178 terminal and the 3174 control unit

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I received a question from a reader from which I realized that I wasn't clear enough in talking about the display and buffer side. This ...
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