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While I was an economics student, I somehow landed a job to build out an elevator monitoring system at my college. Figured out that terminal emulators could connect to the elevator controller and that the output spec was called Wyse-60. My first "professional" program was written in Python using ncurses to parse the serial output [0].

The program is very cringe but it was my best attempt at the time as I couldn't find any literature on terminal emulators (what actually happened was that I didn't know what to search for)

Anyways, I've successfully pivoted my career away from economics and into software development which was the goal when I took the job in college.

[0]: https://github.com/lee-pham/Pyse-60


I used to use a white phosphor Wyse 60 as my daily driver. It was connected to a DG AViiON running DG/UX - most of the tools were GNU.

Those were the days!


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