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ARDS screen dump and link to plotfiles added

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¨Rene Richarz
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This is a [Tektronix 4010 and 4014](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010) terminal emulator
for the Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi 3 or faster) and other Linux systems.
![screen_shot](screendump.png?raw=true "tek4010 screendump")
It can also display historical data for the
[MIT Project MAC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory#Project_MAC)
's ARDS (Advanced Remote Display Station).
's ARDS (Advanced Remote Display Station):
![screen_shot](screendump.png?raw=true "tek4010 screendump")
![ARDS_screen_shot](trek.png?raw=true "tek4010 ARDS screendump")
It makes an effort to emulate the [storage tube display](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_tube)
of the Tektronix 4010, including the bright drawing spot. If the look and feel is not important, you can
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./tek4010 -noexit cat dodekagon.plt
Or, for a ARDS display example, type
./tek4010 -noexit -ARDS cat ardsfiles/trek.pic
If you want to test text output, type for example
./tek4010 -noexit head -n 32 tek4010.c
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./tek4010 ./demo.sh
There are more Tektronix 4014 plot files in pltfiles/More_pltfiles in this repo. You can find more
ARDS plot files at [larsbrinkhoff/ards-files](https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/ards-files) in the
folder pictures.
The emulator does use "rsh" or "telnet", because historical Unix systems do not support
the secure ssh protocol, and because ssh does not allow using a virtual emulator such as tek4010
for security reasons. You need therefore to install rsh or telnet on the Raspberry Pi
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**Contributors**
The storage tube emulator and the Tektronix 4010/4014 decoder were witten by Rene Richarz.
The ARDS decoder was written by Lars Brinkhoff. He also provided some interesting historical documents.
The ARDS decoder was written by Lars Brinkhoff. He also provided some interesting historical documents
and the ARDS plot files.
The historical plot data for the Tektronix 4014 was obtained from Jos Dreesen.
Thanks to Ian Schofield for his critical comments and a code snippet for drawing dashed and dotted lines,
and to Oscar Vermeulen for his support.

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