Smooth scrolling on a long-persistence VT220 is strangely beautiful.

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I changed the color to amber on my command prompt just to get the old terminal vibe again.

It’s cascading that style sheet nicely.

I don’t understand what’s happening here and I’m not sure how to ask the question. The PDP is only outputting text right? Is the scrolling is some feature of a real VT 220 - like filling a buffer with incoming text, then slowly moving a display pointer?

We still use VT220 terminal emulators on windows PCs w USB converters. Our robots natively talk the language and we are running some configuration control bound programs developed 30 years ago. The emulators let us quit buying the terminals off eBay. Ours don’t smooth scroll though! 🤣

Weather intentional or not I’d love to write some code to replicate this effect.

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Upside down matrix.

That is so interesting. Who would have thought the matrix started in the 70s?

We had some Televideo 950s with smooth scroll. You'd enable it once to see what it looked like then never again.