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Monday, October 7, 2024

Type Ball Test

The IBM 2741 Communications Terminal was a printing computer terminal introduced in the 1960s. Recently, we opened up our terminal looking for documentation, and in doing so, found a test sheet from 1980.

Friday, September 13, 2024

Creating PETSCII Art

PETSCII is the character set used in Commodore computers. Its graphical symbols can be used to create blocky, pixelated images and animations.

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