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1991 A computer with a keyboard and a screen

This image showcases a modern personal computer setup in an indoor setting, potentially an office environment due to the presence of office equipment.
The computer is a prominent piece of electronics, equipped with both an input and output device - a computer keyboard and a screen, respectively.
The keyboard complete with a space bar is an essential piece of computer hardware used for text input.
Similarly, the screen or display device is a crucial component that outputs multimedia content.
These components are connected to the computer terminal, making them key peripherals in the personal computer hardware setup.
This gadget is a testament to the advancement of electronic devices.

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The computer-terminal dynamically-redefined-character-set (DRCS) technology could be used to create sprites.

I.e. the spites would be part of the soft-character-set.

And it could be extended to support other file data formats besides just sixels.

(The computer-terminal dynamically‐redefined‐character‐set (DRCS) technology is similar in idea of a unicode private‐use‐area.)

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Xe probably could have fixed the shell prompt, sudo, and grotty problems with a little more work.

sudo is down to controlling terminals and sessions. The shell prompt is down to Readline configuration, and possibly prompt strings; and alas just assuming things without checking the terminal type.

grotty is almost certainly colours being forced on, somewhere. (Sad to say, too many people think that VT102s had colour.)

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@jr

An important thing about many #ComputerTerminal is that — a lot of them (probably most) could only display text!, and only in a single color!

(Although I suppose it is 2 colors, if you also count the dark color of the screen.)

(And also, the 1 color of different Computer Terminals could be a different color from each other.)

So the Computer Terminal world was very monochromatic & text oriented!

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@jr

Back in the 1990s it was not uncommon to still see Computer Terminals in use.

A #ComputerTerminal kind of looks like a computer; but they aren't computers.

You can kind of think of them as a combined monitor & keyboard.

They connected to a computer located somewhere else.

Sometimes many Computer Terminals connected to the same computer.