13 Oct
2002
13 Oct
'02
2:44 a.m.
At 06:54 PM 12/10/2002 -0400, Heinz Wolter wrote:
My fave terminal that I actually own is a working
VT05 (looks like a stingray) - a picture of a VT05can
be seen on some pdp11 handbooks, with the funky 60's
pedestal and matching chairs and DecBabes.. The V05
predates even the VT52 abd VT100's, not much in the
way of control sequences - but hey it's got a 20mA loop
and a termcap for unix/linux ;)
I wish I had a VT05 - I spent a lot of time programming on
a DECsystem-10 with it. In fact we hacked a copy of VTEDIT
to automatically save files you were editing every 5 minutes
as at one stage we had a slightly unreliable version of the
monitor installed. The only problem with a VT05 is that it
is an upper/lower case terminal with uppercase only display.
This lead to interesting problems with earlier versions of
tops-10 which didn't understand lower case versions of commands:
.dir
?dir?
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
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