RE: VT100 - FUN

2015-11-10 Thread tony duell
> > They were for video in and out. You could sync the VT100 to a feed of > mono video and the overlaid > picture would appear on the screen and at the video out connector. Actually, I beleive (confirmed by the VT100 tech manual and schematics) that you have to sync the external video to the

Re: VT100 - FUN

2015-11-10 Thread rod
Now that would be a find. As it so happens one of the guys who worked with me at NL lives locally and we are both on the local council so I see him often. In fact his wife (also councilor) was here yesterday. As he was still there after I left to join DEC he may know more. The keyboards some

RE: VT100 - FUN

2015-11-10 Thread tony duell
> > I remember joining DEC in early October 1973. At the time I was working > for a small local company called Newbury Labs. When I was an undergraduate at Cambridge University (1985-1988) they were still using (somewhat later) Newbury terminals on the mainframe. Due to the metal cases they

RE: VT100 - FUN

2015-11-10 Thread Robert Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of rod > Sent: 10 November 2015 17:05 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: VT100 - FUN > > I remember joining DEC in early October 1973. At t

Re: VT100 - FUN

2015-11-10 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 07:52:51AM +, rod wrote: > > Now there was one interesting but little known VT100 feature. On the > back it had two BNC connectors. > They were for video in and out. You could sync the VT100 to a feed > of mono video and the overlaid > picture would appear on the

Re: VT100 - FUN

2015-11-10 Thread rod
Ah yes forgot that bit (thirty plus years is a while back) Tee adapter on VT100 out, cable to cam sync in on cam - cam out to vt100 in. Ill give it a go later- my video titler has an ext sync connector On 10/11/15 10:59, Christian Corti wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, rod wrote: They were for

Re: VT100 - FUN

2015-11-10 Thread Paul Koning
sion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts >> 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 fou

Re: VT100 - FUN

2015-11-10 Thread Christian Corti
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, rod wrote: They were for video in and out. You could sync the VT100 to a feed of mono video and the overlaid picture would appear on the screen and at the video out connector. AFAIR you couldn't. You had to synchronize the external video source to the VT100. Christian