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Yeah I definitely agree - sub-forums should be visible on mobile (from the main forum list). I did a bit of experimenting, and...

I should've tried harder... rolled another loop, so this one's a bit shorter: 10 OPTION BASE 1 ...

Nice, that'd be appreciated! I think a picture of the original CRT would be preferable - flat screens tend to have fuzzy interpolation...

(EDIT: ha, I must be losing it -- the bitmaps for ¼, ¾ do appear in the ROM... so these characters don't belong in the 'missing' list...

Hm, that's interesting - the CRT section of the service manual only mentions a read-only character generator (as the part that is...

I was looking into the available docs and firmware for this system (http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/system23/), to try and figure out how...

During weeks of studying how my 4054A display worked so I could fix it - I ran across a Tektronix Tekniques Vol 5 No 3 article...

Somehow that doesn't surprise me one bit. Par for the course, as I suspect others would realize if they're familiar with the individual...

A follow up I posted on HackerNews: Again, former VCFederation (Mid Atlantic and National) volunteer here. I was only a volunteer when...

A pretty good condition PPC400 recently showed up for sale on a local marketplace, and the seller included several very nice photos of...

Autodesk Animator! I'm still kicking myself for not keeping all the stuff I made with that... For the OP, I should add: GIF looping was...

^ Yeah, that's the one... although of course that's an idealized (pixel-to-outline) rendering, sharper than a CRT. When I did that I...

Depends on how modern is 'modern', but gcc-ia16 is a thing. https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16

Imagine that I got this perfectly working EGA monitor for less than €2 (untested and covered in easy-to-wipe-off grime). Crisp...

On one hand, those are artifacts of digital culture worth preserving, and the source code for some of these could be interesting. On...