{"id":504,"date":"2008-09-29T10:58:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2008-09-29T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:14:03","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-trapped-in-a-terminal-maze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/504\/retro-scan-of-the-week-trapped-in-a-terminal-maze","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Trapped in a Terminal Maze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/terminal_maze_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/terminal_maze_small.jpg\" alt=\"SWTPC Terminals - BYTE 1981\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Somebody call the fire marshal.<\/em><br \/>(Click above for full advertisement)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing quite like the warm glow of a green screen terminal.  I&#8217;ve never used a SWTPC terminal like those featured here, but I had a few DEC VT-125s with similar displays that I tinkered around with as a teenager.  Now my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/redwolfs-electronics-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">terminal collection<\/a> is larger, but there&#8217;s just something about that green phosphor CRT &#8212; maybe it&#8217;s a sentimental favorite of mine because I first learned to program BASIC on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/440\" target=\"_blank\">Apple II+<\/a> with a green monochrome monitor.  After that, amber- and white phosphor displays always seemed cold and impersonal by comparison.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From BYTE, July 1981 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Terminal Time!  What&#8217;s the best terminal you&#8217;ve ever used?  For those of you who never had to use dedicated terminals, tell us your favorite terminal emulation software.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody call the fire marshal.(Click above for full advertisement) There&#8217;s nothing quite like the warm glow of a green screen terminal. I&#8217;ve never used a SWTPC terminal like those featured here, but I had a few DEC VT-125s with similar displays that I tinkered around with as a teenager. Now my terminal collection is larger, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}