




によるイース2オープニングデモ by かねごん, 2018. A five-minute demo in 34 kilobytes, running on the MZ-700. Full video.





によるイース2オープニングデモ by かねごん, 2018. A five-minute demo in 34 kilobytes, running on the MZ-700. Full video.


These are IBM’s first computers: IBM 5100 (1975) and IBM 5110 (1978).
The 5100 had 256 characters but half of the characters were just underscored versions of the other half. It used IBM’s mega obscure EBCD encoding instead of ASCII. IBM 5110 dropped most of the underscored characters, which made room for semi-graphic characters. Encoding was changed to the slightly less obscure EBCDIC, and there were 14 localized character sets with 12 characters each.
Character set photos from Voidstar, where there are also more details about the character sets.





Typo…matic by Josh Bookout, 2012. An electronic typewriter (IBM Selectric) controlled with a computer to make ASCII art. (previously posted without the GIFs)

AI-generated ANSI-like Power Rangers by Naitron (aka Nitron)






PETSCII (and some pixels) by Max Capacity, 2011.

Петербургского телетекста (Petersburg teletext) was broadcasted in St Petersburg, Russia 1992-2017.

KOINS, a Korean teletext service on KBS TV was originally launched in January 1990, but was re-launched 18 August, 1990 according to this news segment. A year later, it was announced that the decoder hardware was delayed, so KBS made the service available through computers, according to this news segment.
Also see the Korean MBC teletext.