May the 4th Retro Hack with the HP 2645 

Great work, "Its not written in english.... Its nerd" what better compliment :)

Daughters are unimpressed. Dad score 100%

Great video! Thank you. I had an HP 2645 terminal that I bought used from a leasing company. At the time, the 2645 was light years ahead of anything else. The 2645 could keep up with a 9600 bps serial stream (fastest I could generate back then) without doing any flow control .... while it was archiving the stream to tape at the same time. The character sets and wide screen were beautiful. I had to use a VT-100 terminal at work and the VT-100 could not even keep up with sustained a 2400 bps serial stream without doing huge amounts of flow control. The 2645 was also a joy to use on UNIX because it had a much more complete termcap/terminfo with most of the advanced keys fully supported in vi. The insert/drop functions made editing even over a 1200 bps serial link reasonable while most other terminals had to do painfully slow screen repaints. Thanks for reviving some nice 1980s memories.

"What is this?" "It's neeerd" 😂

Everything about this video is just beautiful. Thank you for sharing your hard work with us, it's a brilliant memorial

A lovely tribute to Peter Mayhew... RIP Chewie...

The look on your daughter's face @10:45 is priceless ! Hahahahaha! Thanks for sharing !

now THAT is a lovely font!

I appreciate the disembodied voice of Ken in the background. Also enjoy seeing that I'm not the only one with an unenthusiastic family when it comes to nerdy projects (I feel your pain). But, I think the opportunity to mentor a child in the nerdy arts may come with grandchildren. We shall see.

May the fourth be with you 🤓

Nerd??? Your terminal key reminded me of when I had one of those on my key chain in the 80's when I worked for HP. Now THAT is nerdy! Great video!

Thank you for sharing all of this Marc. It was loads of fun to watch 😊

Nice work. I remember seeing ASCII art every time I dialed up a BBS back in the day.

Gives me a flashback to your toughbook video haha Never thought I'd enjoy a video about changing the font on a vintage terminal.

R.I.P. Peter Mayhew

Objective Successful: Dad Status Achieved! Haha I loved every bit of this. My girls are the same way when it comes to my nerdness. This was an awesome way to spend my May the 4th morning. Thanks Marc!

And our 1979 TRS-80 model 1 only displayed upper case letters. We were, however, able to get it to play Star Wars theme my manipulating the processor to output on an adjacent AM radio!

It's nerd. Best description for this channel :)

Future archaeologists are gonna be so confused.

According to CNN, Peter Mayhew died on April 30, 2019. RIP and May the 4th be with you.

I love this! I am very pleased that you programmed a bipolar PROM!!!

I can't believe I never noticed that your avatar is R2D2. I suddenly feel like such a star-wars failure.

I'm not a star wars fan Marc, but all of your work is truly impressive.

Thanks to those asciimations, it was quite easy to do movie theaters in minecraft with computercraft addon (lua based system) installed.

Grate video. Reminds me when I saw Star Wars the first time. And very said about Peter Mayhew.

Nice work. Great video as usual. Great way to say thanks the our Chewie.

BTW. The sequences with flying starships were made not by moving the starships, but by moving the camera on a computer-controlled rig. The type of computer controlling the rig, they were HP computers from that same era as that terminal.

This maybe the best video ever. Incredible work all around!

watch you dont get a copyright strike from disney for this video showing star wars clips, even in ASCII

I tried fried wookie once but it was a bit chewie! 😉

I got the left most chewbacca puppet too. It plays its familiar growling noises. I wish I had that cute Yoda one too :)

Great work Marc, rest in peace Peter.

Thank you my friend.

Adorable daughters-tolerating-dad time :D

Takes me back to 1980 when a colleague at Chubb wrote a Space Invaders emulator to 'test' cash dispensers.

ALL THE ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS THAT I KNOW LOVE STAR WARS !!!!!!!!!! AMAZING !!!!!!

That was awesome Marc!

Rest in peace Peter Mayhew. I thank you for all you have done.

Which port did you use for telnet? I installed the Telnet option on my Windows box and opening port 23 does would not connect.

Hey Marc, you got any vacuum tape stuff in the pipeline? That stuff's mesmerising! :) (Seen all your other videos, too)

Does your HP 2645 terminal have the 5.25” Floppy Drive option? HP 13272A ?

Smiles the whole way through!

Hp where way ahead of there time back then.

Beautiful....nuff said

And my daughter calls me a nerd! Good work!

Is that Carrie Fisher's signature too?

can you share your charset wiever/editor?

so cool why can you only press the damn like button once

You're doing it the wrong way !! There are escape sequences to address each rows and column of the screen ! I used to do that on my HP3000 computer !

Never forget the great 1977 Star Wars flame war that threatened to tear apart the Arpanet.

How about Klingon now?

Nice bit of fun with an old terminal. What's the story behind the Apollo Saturn Permanent Firing Room Access badge on the table?

Daughters are hilarious, shame they did not recognized the script. It is never the plot point in the movies I think, so not many people notices it is on the screens everywhere. It is neeeerd. Send help :D This happened in reverse in my home, my parents were unimpressed with my nerd or car stuff.

And also with you.

A good way to start the 4th

Btw the black computer on the right can you remind me what type it is please I remember you repairing it and me wanting one 🙂

Name of keyboard?

i love this stuff :D

A few months back I had to email blinkenlights.nl since towel was down...

Lol I'm actually using those math symbols in TI nspire at the moment

We got BASIC, BASICA, QBasic, Visual Basic...and now Galactic Basic. Awesome!

Ouaou... where did you get the lifesize R2D2?

It’s neeerd 😅 haha!

... always.

You've got some great family 😂 Great character design

Cool

Awesome :)

are you sure they're really your daughters ? 😂

😞...,..

o7

It's sad that he didn't die on 4th May. 😢 Thanks for the fine tribute, Marc.

++Geeky_stuff

first view!

Dislike for chubaka and the whole nonsense around!