> On Dec 23, 2025, at 4:24 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, 22 Dec 2025, Christian Corti wrote:
>> "dumb"? Depends on what you mean by that. It is not a "glass TTY"; the
>
> Well, relatvely dumb. I agree that is has screen control commands. But it is
> somewhat painful on most systems to operate with a 72x20 character screen.
>
>> do full screen editing on one of those. And while 2400 baud is slow by
>> today's standards, it was blindingly fast for those of us used to ASR33s or
>> even Silent 700s.
>
> IIRC the VT05 needs pause/spacing characters when operating above 300 bauds
> or so, so effectively reducing its speed.
The VT05B needs fill after line feed, but not otherwise.
> This reminds me that I have a VT50 somewhere, also quite limited with its
> 80x12 (!) screen.
Yes, uppercase only I believe. The VT05 is also upper case only but 72 x 20.
paul
