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