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Nice, what did you use to post this thread from the console ? lynx, links, links2 or something else ?

I will try those once I fire up my old system.

Thanks

I think it went very well. The roll your own format worked out, and I wonder if this would be a better format going forward. Just a week of "used an old device or something completely different".

Some people had some imaginative setups and ran into odd issues that was fun to read about.

anthk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 4:27 pm On daily comics, you can always print them with netcat against an IP printer.

Good idea, but wait for it, my only printer is a dot matrix

But will remember that should I ever get a real printer

For OpenBSD it is recommended to install X, which I did. I set this up after a friend gave me that system a while ago. She was throwing it out, so I grabbed it from her.

But I will not start xdm, without xdm X is really unusable under OpenBSD.

Since I will not have X, this is what I am planning * File browsers - ls(1) * Image viewers - n/a but ASCII art will work :) * Media players - n/a * Music players - ogg123 * Web browsers - lynx, amfora, bombadillo * Instant messengers - irssi on IRC * Email clients - mutt * USENET - maybe nn(1), but...

I am doing 1989, it is around the time I got a UNIX system at work. I will set up OpenBSD on an old Laptop to emulate that old system. With that said, once it starts I will have no access to any GUI applications since I never even knew X existed until a few years later. Here is my OCC 4 gemini capsu...