* Desktop computer
* Laptop computer
* Tablet
* Mobile phone
gopher://gopher.icu/1/poll?poll=1785166603
All my machines, including my android tablet. Lynx.
* Desktop computer
* Laptop computer
* Tablet
* Mobile phone
gopher://gopher.icu/1/poll?poll=1785166603
* Desktop computer
* Laptop computer
* Tablet
* Mobile phone
gopher://gopher.icu/1/poll?poll=1785166603
On 27 July 2026 16:23 IanJ, wrote:
* Desktop computer
* Laptop computer
* Tablet
* Mobile phone
gopher://gopher.icu/1/poll?poll=1785166603
Laptop, with Emacs Elpher mostly, sometimes lynx
On 2026-09-04, Matto Fransen <mattof@sdf.org> wrote:
On 27 July 2026 16:23 IanJ, wrote:
* Desktop computer
* Laptop computer
* Tablet
* Mobile phone
Laptop, with Emacs Elpher mostly, sometimes lynx
Laptop, with VF1 or UMN Gopher or bbgopher (or less often
bombadillo or phetch
or sacc)
I've just set up a real old-school serial terminal - Wyse 185 - at 9600
baud. It's connected to a Rasp.Pi as a serial-getty console. I first
used this old terminal about 25 years ago, when my Linux box was an old 486 with real serial ports....
Logging in on a serial terminal, with its orange-phospor CRT (ever so slightly rotated anti-clockwise... I must adjust the yoke on the neck of
the CRT sometime)... feels appropriate for using Gopher.
This really /is/ an 80 column by 24 line display, and some sites are
a bit tricky to read...
Still using UMN Gopher or bbgopher mostly.
I love the way there's a preceptively visible writing of the screen
as each page loads.
Happy Gophering
On 10 September 2026 07:20 johnp_g, wrote:
I've just set up a real old-school serial terminal - Wyse 185 - at 9600
baud. It's connected to a Rasp.Pi as a serial-getty console. I first
used this old terminal about 25 years ago, when my Linux box was an old 486 >> with real serial ports....
Oh, that's wonderful!
About a dozen years ago I was so stupid to put my serial terminal out with the garbage :(
On 2026-09-10, Matto Fransen <mattof@sdf.org> wrote:
On 10 September 2026 07:20 johnp_g, wrote:
I've just set up a real old-school serial terminal - Wyse 185 - at 9600
baud. It's connected to a Rasp.Pi as a serial-getty console. I first
used this old terminal about 25 years ago, when my Linux box was an old 486 >>> with real serial ports....
Oh, that's wonderful!
About a dozen years ago I was so stupid to put my serial terminal out with >> the garbage :(
Sadly, ages ago, i did the same thing. It was an amber DEC VT220.
During OCC2026, i used SvarDOS & MS-Kermit to access the Internet for
a week. It's not a real terminal, but it emulates a DEC VT320.
It's a reality check. Things that fly by in xterm can take a while
to update the terminal over 9600 BPS. For example, lynx's progress
indicator floods the terminal with updates. On a large document, it
can take forever. For certain "larger" things, i needed to stop
using lynx.
Also, i produce gopher as much as i consume it.
* Desktop computer
* Laptop computer
* Tablet
* Mobile phone
gopher://gopher.icu/1/poll?poll=1785166603
On 2026-09-04, johnp_g <g4slv@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 2026-09-04, Matto Fransen <mattof@sdf.org> wrote:
On 27 July 2026 16:23 IanJ, wrote:
* Desktop computer
* Laptop computer
* Tablet
* Mobile phone
Laptop, with Emacs Elpher mostly, sometimes lynx
Laptop, with VF1 or UMN Gopher or bbgopher (or less often
bombadillo or phetch
or sacc)
An update!
I've just set up a real old-school serial terminal - Wyse 185 - at 9600
baud. It's connected to a Rasp.Pi as a serial-getty console. I first
used this old terminal about 25 years ago, when my Linux box was an old 486 with real serial ports....
Logging in on a serial terminal, with its orange-phospor CRT (ever so slightly rotated anti-clockwise... I must adjust the yoke on the neck of
the CRT sometime)... feels appropriate for using Gopher.
This really /is/ an 80 column by 24 line display, and some sites are
a bit tricky to read...
Still using UMN Gopher or bbgopher mostly.
I love the way there's a preceptively visible writing of the screen
as each page loads.
Happy Gophering
John
gopher://g4slv.cloud
johnp_g <g4slv@tilde.pink> writes:
On 2026-09-04, johnp_g <g4slv@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 2026-09-04, Matto Fransen <mattof@sdf.org> wrote:
On 27 July 2026 16:23 IanJ, wrote:
* Desktop computer
* Laptop computer
* Tablet
* Mobile phone
Laptop, with Emacs Elpher mostly, sometimes lynx
Laptop, with VF1 or UMN Gopher or bbgopher (or less often
bombadillo or phetch
or sacc)
An update!
I've just set up a real old-school serial terminal - Wyse 185 - at 9600
baud. It's connected to a Rasp.Pi as a serial-getty console. I first
used this old terminal about 25 years ago, when my Linux box was an old 486 >> with real serial ports....
Logging in on a serial terminal, with its orange-phospor CRT (ever so
slightly rotated anti-clockwise... I must adjust the yoke on the neck of
the CRT sometime)... feels appropriate for using Gopher.
This really /is/ an 80 column by 24 line display, and some sites are
a bit tricky to read...
Still using UMN Gopher or bbgopher mostly.
I love the way there's a preceptively visible writing of the screen
as each page loads.
Happy Gophering
John
gopher://g4slv.cloud
Are the keyboard switches the old foam & foil type? How much power does
that system consume?
I'm a big sucker for the old terminals, and currently exploring
buildinng a modern homebrew vt100 terminal project from geoffg.
I'd like to be able to use an old monochrome CRT again. I have one, but alas, its the older CGA style with the composite connection, and no
machine to hook it up to.
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