[TUHS] DMD 5620 simulator

Joseph Holsten joseph at josephholsten.com
Wed Sep 14 08:29:39 AEST 2022


I was wondering why you’d pick this term of all historical terms to emulate. Now I have a terrible urge to try my hand at an ADM-3A.

Which just reminds me of this teletype 33 ad: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teletype_Model_33_Terminal_June_1974.jpg

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josephholsten.com

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022, at 16:25, Seth Morabito wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've recently been improving the AT&T/Teletype DMD 5620 simulator I 
> wrote a few years ago. It can now run either the 8;7;3 or 8;7;5 
> firmware. It also now supports executing a local shell or connecting 
> directly to a physical or virtual tty device. It runs natively on Linux 
> or macOS with X11 or Wayland, but I would love help creating a Windows 
> version if you're a Windows programmer (I am an occasional Windows 
> user, but I am not at all knowledgeable about Windows programming).
>
> Full details are available here: https://loomcom.com/3b2/dmd5620_emulator.html
>
> The source code is here: https://github.com/sethm/dmd_gtk
>
> Many thanks go to my friend Sark (@crtdude on Twitter) for tracking 
> down the 8;7;3 firmware and dumping it for me. I'd also like to thank 
> Mike Haertel for helping find bugs, providing feedback, and inspiring 
> me to get it working with Research Unix in addition to SVR3.
>
> Feedback, bug reports, and pull requests are all welcome!
>
> -Seth
> -- 
>   Seth Morabito
>   Poulsbo, WA
>   web at loomcom.com


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