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Blast from the past: Facit A2400 terminal
The year is (roughly) 1989, and we have a small office with some Unix computers and a handful of Facit A2400 terminals connected to them. What we love most about these terminals is they are positiv...
The year is now (exactly) 2025, and Martin S. of the Linuxhotel has the idea of setting up an “old” terminal to show trainees in Unix beginner courses what our life was once like. Obviously I’m not going to schlepp this very heavy terminal to Essen just to determine it no longer works, so I configure a Shuttle PC with OpenBSD and set up com0 as the console at 19200 baud; the Facit can do double that, but I thought this would be a compromise between “speed” and “seeing slowish output” for noobs. I have decided to make this a permanent loan to the lovely people at the Linuxhotel and very much hope younger generations will have the opportunity of experiencing what we used to work with.
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