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History repeats itself. Found (was referred to) a very cool OSX app today. glterminal is a full screen terminal for OSX. That's not the cool part.
The cool part is when you open Session Preferences and go to the Renderer tab, and select "ClassicTerminal." This is so cool. So very retro. It limits your "terminal" to amber, green, or white. It lets you put "curvature" on the glass. You can add flicker. You can even see the scan lines in the characters. I died of laughter. You can even turn on baud emulation so things go kind of slow. Sitting there watching top run in curvy, flickery, grainy, amberchrome glory was quite the flashback.
The only thing I was missing was the lines I used to draw on the glass with a permanent highlighter. Lines that marked columns 1, 2-5, 6, and 73-80. Don't know why I did that? Easy. Fortran had different interprations of source code text, based on what column the character was in. And if you did a lot of it, it became handy to just put "guides" right on your monitor to avoid making a mistake.
I would make it my default terminal, but it doesn't seem to want to render some punctuation characters such as / and *.
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