Monthly Archives: December 2024

Don’t know why I havent done this sooner. In my videos, it’s often hard to make out what I’ve typed on my x3270 screen. Especially red text on a black background. This is how i usually start my x3270 terminal: There are a few easy solutions. Start like this… or change the font, after x3270 …

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Worked a good part of the day on it. Uploaded to YouTube and made Public.

To my surprise the compressed image was only 433MB. I later found it didn’t work, because On reflection, I should have first created a Private repository.

Found out I can look at the running TK5 container files in Docker. If you look at the running TK5 container in Docker Desktop, one of the Actions is View Files. So you can for instance look at TK5s printer (prt) you can also copy a file and paste locally if you want. This is …

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Replaced old Logitech mouse, lasted many years, with new one (M310) that looks almost the same… under $20. Old mouse required 2 AA batteries, this one, only 1. No mouse subscription!

This is TK5 Update 3, running in a Docker container. Visually there’s no difference. The startup is different…docker run -ti -p 3270:3270 -p8038:8038 tk5Using x3270 is the same! Docker Desktop The 1st detail line shows the TK5 running container

Contemplating pushing my TK5 update 3 image to Docker Hub. But option was greyed out on Docker Desktop. I assumed because I wasn’t signed on. So I had to go through some steps. See the previous post. I did that then Push to Docker Hub was available. I didn’t push. But at least the option …

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Unable to log inYou must initialize pass before logging in to Docker Desktop I had to do this.

Read about it Here, on X. Here’s the PiDP-11 manual. New software here (they moved to Github this month) for the PiDP-11, it includes… 1st Edition UNIX has been reconstructed. Probably should rename the old folder first, before installing.