{"id":588,"date":"2006-03-09T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eekim.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/augment-flashback\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T08:04:00","slug":"augment-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/2006\/03\/augment-flashback\/","title":{"rendered":"Augment Flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>This past Tuesday night, we had an Augment jam session<\/a>. Here<\/a> I am using a thirty year old Chording Keyset<\/a> to play with a forty year old piece of software.    (KC0)<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Puts a chill down your spine. Thanks to John Deneen<\/a> for taking the pictures<\/a>.    (KC2)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>The original Augment<\/a> server is still running on TOPS-20<\/a>, which is running on top of a PDP-10 emulator written by Ken Harrenstien<\/a> called called KLH10<\/a>. All of this is currently running on a Solaris box sitting in Doug Engelbart<\/a>‘s office at Logitech<\/a>. Doug often shakes his head with amusement when he explains that the current system running on emulation is many, many, many times faster than the original.    (KC3)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>The client software we’re using in the picture is Java Augterm<\/a>, written by Howard Palmer<\/a>. It uses Augment’s “dumb” protocol — VAT0 — to communicate with the server. There’s a smarter protocol called VAT1 that has some more advanced capabilities.    (KC4)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>We don’t know the exact date of the keyset (yet), but it probably dates back to the 1970s. It’s still in fantastic condition, and it feels great. Jon Cheyer<\/a>‘s friend, Brian, has been building USB adaptors for these keysets. Jon wrote the keyset driver in Java, which is part of the Augterm software itself.    (KC5)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>We’ll be doing another jam session this Saturday at SuperHappyDevHouse<\/a>, which is open to everyone, so come join the fun!    (KC6)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past Tuesday night, we had an Augment jam session. Here I am using a thirty year old Chording Keyset to play with a forty year old piece of software.    (KC0)    (KC1) Puts a chill down your spine. Thanks to John Deneen for taking the pictures.    (KC2) The original Augment server is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[143,312,516,765,916,927,974,1763],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4cTFX-9u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}