A cool little project came our way, which we thought might be of interest to some of you vintage computer buffs ... to connect it to his DEC terminal over a serial interface.

So, yes, you can have fun with the Linux command line. I will show you a few things you can do from a terminal window that ...

Users control the computer ... most interfaces were CLIs. They still exist within modern operating systems, for example the command prompt app in Windows, and Terminal in macOS.

A terminal or desktop computer that displays graphics. Before GUI interfaces became standard, the term was used to refer to a specialized graphics machine in contrast with a text-based screen.

WattWise is a lightweight, opensource, command-line tool to monitor the power usage of your system in real-time.