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Oct 22, 2016 at 02:28
Wonderful post on the ancient PC that jwz worked on (including writing the Emacs byte compiler!)
jwz: export TERM=aaa-60
You guys, I got my Ono-Sendai working again! I've had this terminal sitting under my desk gathering dust for... close to two decades, I think. This is an Ann Arbor Ambassador 60, manufactured in 1982 or 1983. It is a terminal. You probably think that word means "a GUI window that runs a command line shell in it". You think this thing must be a computer because it looks like what computers ...

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