6 Sep
2018
6 Sep
'18
4:28 p.m.
My biggest complaint with DEC terminals (and clones) that came after the VT100
(such as the VT220/VT320/etc) is that the terminals are nice and small but the
keyboards are *huge* (almost twice the width of the terminal itself).
I like having a keyboard that matches the size of the terminal and the VT100 is
along those lines.
It is also the same complaint that I have with IBM 3178/9 terminals (e.g. connect
to IBM 370 mainframes), where the terminal is relatively small but the keyboard is
significantly wider (being a derivative of the IBM PC/AT keyboard) and IMHO
would have been far better if IBM had left off the number pad.
TTFN - Guy
On Sep 6, 2018, at 9:16 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
We didn't have a single VT100 in the house when we were running a VAX.
C Itoh, CIT-220s in our case. Nice terminals with 14" screens.
Lots of VT100/VT220 clones were popular. I did some programming for a
specific VT220 clone from TAB products.
--Chuck
On 09/06/2018 09:03 AM, systems_glitch via cctalk wrote:
> I'm personally interested in an original because it's the physical standard
> that a lot of imitations and emulations decided to implement. For similar
> reasons, I have a LSI ADM-3A -- not because it's the best terminal ever,
> but because it is so interwoven into the history of UNIX.
>
> I personally seem to use a VT220 for most of my general hacking. It's nice
> to have the current loop interface!