> On Feb 15, 2026, at 11:47 PM, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I like period correct hardware terminals for authentic immersion feels and
> have been tending to RSX (and UNIX) PDP-11s since my teen years, quite a long
> time now. I keep them in my living room and den, etc. Convincing setups
> that quite look the part. And actually *are* the part; running much as
> though it’s still 1986. Very little emulation “cheating.” Real SMD disks,
> even, sometimes.
>
> Anyway, one of the many fun things I do with them is chat rooms. People are
> like, “you connected here on a WHAT?”
>
> In doing this I find myself often chastised by my esteemed Internet
> colleagues for using such “horrible” computers because “That’s the worst
> possible computer you could pick” (real quote, minus some aspersions about
> power consumption) and “what loser can’t scroll up and look through chat
> that’s more than 24 lines back?!?”
>
> I try to ignore all this in the name of “progress,” but, I mean, they have a
> point. As much as I’m having a nice time with all this, it does hurt quite
> enough already for all the other obvious reasons and then I CAN’T SCROLL
> BACK?!? Come on.
If you have a decwriter or teletype instead of a glass tty, your scroll back is
however much paper you can keep around.
