6 Mar
2011
6 Mar
'11
6:36 p.m.
There there is the VT100 look alike the VT180 which uses all the VT100
boards
and an additional VT180 board (Z80, 64K ram, FDC, serial ports..). Many
of the
upgraded Vt100s that ran CP/M still have the VT100 badge.
There there wer the VT103s, a vt100 with a Qbus card rack and could have
and of the Qbus PDP11s (and i've even seen Qbus microVAX) board in them!
Vt100 was the first DEC terminal that wasn't a state machine or some random
logic sortacpu. However there were a lot of 8080based Terminals before the
8085, z80 and cheaper 8048 hit the scene.
Allison
On 03/06/2011 09:16 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Rob Jarratt wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270716450383&s…
=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123
Chuck and I each used to get a lot of disks to convert where
the owner was
unable to even say what machine they came from.
"My computer is clearly labelled. It is a:
Lear Sigler
VT100
ADM-3A
Wyse
Televideo
"
But are they looking at the computer, or at a terminal? A lot of those
had Morrow Designs, Northstar, etc. copyright messages in the system
tracks of the disk.
Out in my storage shed, I have a "DISKON" computer, which is a single
board computer that was built into a slightly modified Televideo terminal.
They were peddled for disk format conversion. At one point, I offered it
here and didn't get any takers. When I tried to boot it, I got a disk
read error.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com