As a random aside - this is about the only photo I've got where the camera has accurately captured the deep emerald green colour properly.
This however shows something quite interesting. In fact it shows a couple of interesting things.
Firstly is that we clearly have an extended character ROM installed. None visible in that photograph as far as I can see, but we definitely saw a lot of characters while being slowly hypnotised by it that absolutely are not in the standard VT100 character ROM. Whole load of Greek characters were most conspicuous.
What is also interesting is that we have clearly accidentally sent the control codes which have changed it into the advanced graphics mode, and been drawing point to point graphics.
This is interesting as it shows that it's obviously possible to get into and manipulate the graphics mode using escape codes just the same as used for cursor control etc. So we might be able to do some interesting things with that later on, even though we obviously don't have the proprietary software which originally would have utilised it.
There is something really hypnotising about text just scrolling past on a long persistence phosphor CRT.
This was me just chucking the Windows 3.0 Readme.txt file to it when I was testing.
Yes, the phosphor really does fade out that slowly.
Which gives quite a spectacular display of the frame collapsing when the power is turned off as well.
Kind of interesting that we have a green screen, the documentation suggests a normal white P4 phosphor rather than our green. Which honestly looks far better to me!
