On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Francesca C. Smith
<fsmith at ladylinux.com> wrote:
Also in that dir is a weirdo custom ?? VT100 with a tiny 4 inch screen. I am
guessing this all prob sat in some rack at one time.
http://linuxgal.com/decstuff/display1.jpg
http://linuxgal.com/decstuff/display2.jpg
http://linuxgal.com/decstuff/display3.jpg
I have one of the same VT100 boxes in its original configuration,
which is without any CRT and with a full metal skin around it with a
handle on top making it somewhat like a giant lunchbox.
In the VS11-FX/HX/JX Raster Graphics System Installation Manual
EK-VSFHJ-IN-001 there are illustrations of this box being used in
combination with a VRV02-AA/AB color monitor where the box is refered
to as the "keyboard interface box" and the combination of the monitor
and the "keyboard interface box" makes up the VRV02-FA/FB.
The "keyboard interface box" video output feeds into the VS11 where
the terminal video output is then fed back out along with the VS11
raster graphics output to the monitor.
The VS11 is the M7061-YA / M7062 / M7064 Q-BUS board set.
Maybe there were multiple products made from the VT100 lunchbox, or
maybe only the VRV02 "keyboard interface box" and someone took one of
those and grafted a CRT onto it to make it a standalone terminal.
-Glen