6 Sep
2018
6 Sep
'18
4:48 p.m.
On Sep 6, 2018, at 12:22 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 09/06/2018 09:37 AM, Carlo Pisani via cctalk wrote:
I can think of a bunch of reasons.
1. For its time, the VT100 was pretty compact.
2. It was the first DEC terminal with a detachable keyboard (not counting the GT-40) and
if you needed an extension cord, you could just get a headphone cord at Radio Shack.
3. It was the first DEC terminal to implement a standard for control sequences (ANSI
controls).
Before then, the VT52 was certainly attractive, same screen size (24 by 80) and
upper/lower case (English only, give or take some national variants). But it's much
bigger and doesn't have a separate keyboard. VT50 seems like it was someone's
mistake -- 12 lines, what were they thinking? Even the VT05 had 20.
paul
cause it's the simples, I guess
I used to naively think that the VT100 was the lowest end Video Terminal. Then I
subsequently saw references to VT50 and VT52. So now I have no clue.
Maybe it was just the fact that so many things claimed VT100 compatibility helped
escalate VT100 in popularity. ?\_(?)_/?