Elekterminal (1978)
Retronics section
Published in issue 403, June 2010
When I was thinking how to improve my text screen, I suddenly remembered I had a copy Elektor’s December 1978 edition, with an article about a project called elekterminal (sic) — a ‘dumb’ ASCII VDU provided with a serial interface and capable of displaying 16 lines x 64 characters. The whopping 64 characters per line for the first time allowed me to write real lines of text and to understand program code more easily.
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