4 Apr
2011
4 Apr
'11
10:04 p.m.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:59 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> And VT100's - I've got a couple.
They're uncommon, but there are definitely a lot of them out there.
There certainly were at one time (I haven't seen any go by in a long
time, but I'm not actively looking).
I just wound up with another one last week, along with
two CIT-101's (clones), which I actually find more interesting (and less common)
I have multiple CIT-101 and CIT-101e terminals - we bought them at
work when genuine VT100s were around $1600 each. I even have an
original manual or two (but I know they've been scanned already).
One nice feature of the -101s is the built-in real-time clock on the
SETUP page (you set it with a magic CItoh escape sequence). I used to
set mine on login and check the time by tapping SETUP. A nice feature
of the -101e is that you can use the printer port as a second session
port. The terminal doesn't maintain state, but when you are in an
application that does redraw on demand (like EDT or vi), it's no big
deal to use one session for editing and the other session for
commands.
I probably average finding 2 or 3 a year, but I have
sort of stopped
picking them up. They are just too much of a hassle to ship properly.
Thank you DEC for that awful plastic case.
I agree - between finding large enough boxes to ship them safely and
the amount of packing material, I'm not keen to ship them (though I
_would_ sell terminals with keyboards to folks on their way to/from
Dayton or other nearby event).
-ethan