30 Jul
2007
30 Jul
'07
12:48 p.m.
On 30 Jul 2007 at 11:11, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I agree, though; the C Itoh terminals were rugged and
much cheaper (in
the day) than VT-100s. They also all had the "Advanced Video Option"
(AVO), unlike a genuine VT-100 (vs a VT-101 or VT-102), thus 132
column mode wasn't half-height. I think we did have a few real
VT-100s, but, obviously, we didn't use them for wide-screen work.
There were better terminals than the VT-100s and VT-220s. My
recollection of a particularly good one is a 220-type model made by
TAB Equipment. It had a keyboard to die for.
Sometime around then, Wyse started offering their VT-100 compatibles.
I didn't like them much, but they were certainly inexpensive compared
to the competition.
I didn't put much time in on the CIT-101s--I brought my IBM 5150 to
the office with a homebrew 8" Shugart hard disk box and downloaded my
files from the VAX 11/750, edited them, then uploaded them for
compiling. I used a surplus 19" green-screen monitor in a plywood
box that I built that was the subject of much ridicule--but I had a
great big display and great (clicky) keyboard--and I could work while
the VAX was offline.
Cheers,
Chuck