Hi
I always considered the VT05 to be art or sculpture.
However DEC never produced anything else in the same style.
In the time period we are considering here (1970's) the market (that is
to say the UK)
was for time sharing terminals. You dialed in with your acoustic
coupler and blazed away at 300baud.
Rod Panelman
On 11/11/15 00:53, Paul Koning wrote:
On Nov 10, 2015, at 5:23 PM, Robert Jarratt <robert.jarr...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
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Subject: Re: VT100 - FUN
I remember joining DEC in early October 1973. At the time I was working for a
small local company called Newbury Labs.
We designed and built what were then called glass teletypes. Twenty four lines
of eighty characters, upwards scrolling only,shift registers for memory. TTL
everything else.
When I was at school I seem to recall that the glass teletypes used by my local
polytechnic on their DECSYSTEM20 were Newbury Labs. They were a great step up
from the Teletype at the time. I didn't see a VT1xx until I got to my M.Sc at
Manchester (1984-1985) where I had a VT125 connected to a 780. I have a VT101
and VT102, but would love to get a 125 just for old times sake.
It's interesting that people were building glass TTYs when DEC was well beyond
them with the VT05 by that time or earlier, never mind the VT52.
paul
