/Tek4010

Free Tektronix 4010, 4013, 4014 and 4015 terminal emulator for Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu

Primary LanguageCGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Tektronix 4010 and 4014 Storage Tube Terminal Emulator

This is a Tektronix 4010, 4013, 4014 and 4015 terminal emulator for the Raspberry Pi and other Linux systems.

screen_shot

Below is a screen shot of the spacelab from the ICEMDDN CAD package made on a CDC Cyber 175 mainframe emulator.

spacelab

tek4010 can also display historical data for the MIT Project MAC 's ARDS (Advanced Remote Display Station):

ARDS_screen_shot

tek4010 makes an effort to emulate the storage tube display of the Tektronix 4010, including the fading bright drawing spot. If the look and feel is not important, you can use "xterm" instead. "xterm" does not support all graphics modes of the 4014.

It can be used to log into a historical Unix system such as 2.11 BSD on the PiDP-11 or a real historical system. It can also be used to display historical plot data.

The following picture shows a scale model of the Tektronix 4010 crafted by Dave Ault using tek4010.

scale model

All instructions can now be found in Manual.pdf in the main Tek4010 directory.

Version 1.8 for the Raspberry Pi 5 includes a somewhat improved handling of the fading of the bright drawing spot at the expense of requiring much more computer power. See chapter 14 of the manual on how to switch to it. The standard version is 1.7, which works on all Raspberry Pi models.