It’s an era [John Calhoun] harks back to with Adam74, a little ASCII terminal which takes its input from that 7-bit parallel port. In the place of a forest of TTL chips which might have graced ...

IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher ...

This is a simple concept: "ASCII Theater plays movies as text, directly in Terminal." That's it. They add this message as well: "A single line of code begins playing a new movie every day ...

The theater, first spotted by The Verge, is a play on basic ASCII technology ... To watch the movies, people must open Terminal, a basic and rarely accessed app on Macs. When they paste a short ...

It appears that the particular variety of extended ASCII that I want is actually called Code Page 437 as opposed to the more popular ISO 8859-1. The reason I wasn't seeing the right characters in ...

The link allows Riley to use the typewriter as a Linux terminal although admittedly, functionality is somewhat limited. The contraption is quite handy for creating ASCII art, however, as Riley ...