Save the shell people

[firecat]

I'm outside the target demographic but charmed enough to play yenta:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/fct/m4w/485967082.html

(The OH knows him and advised him to add the PPS about vi.)

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[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I forwarded the link to a geo-and-demographically-appropriate geeky person I know, but I'm afraid that she's heavily GUI-based. ;) Still, that's very cute!

Except that everybody pines after green whereas my nostlagia is amber. *sniff*

I have to admit that sometimes I put my Mac in full-screen terminal mode and find myself inordinately happy.

[firecat]

I think I'm more fond of amber too. I'll have to try that full screen terminal mode and see if it causes me to write a specific kind of poetry the way writing on the DECSYSTEM10 used to.

[brooksmoses]

The first computer we had at home, when I was a kid, had a monitor with dip-switches on the back to set the color mode. It had four monochrome modes -- white-on-black, green-on-black, amber-on-black, and white-on-blue -- and two 16-color modes, one for the IBM color palette (red bit, blue bit, green bit, brightness bit) and one for the Apple color palette (a rather more random selection).

The computer itself was an IBM 5155 "Portable" PC, so it also had a built-in amber monochrome monitor.