14 Mar
2017
14 Mar
'17
6:20 a.m.
On Mar 13, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
My guess is that the VT52, VT55, VT05 and LA30 are identical.
No, fortunately not. The LA30 was notorious for having a very bad and very unreliable
keyboard. Some GT40s had that same keyboard as well, I don't remember if that changed
later. The keycap shapes were different too: larger and more square with sharper
corners.
I don't remember the VT05 well enough, it may have been like the LA30 or different yet
again.
The VT52 keyboard technology shows up in other VT variants of the same family: VT55,
VT61/t, VT62. It is also used in the LA36. Similarly, VT100 style keyboards show up in
other devices of that era: Gigi for example. And the LA120 may use that generation of
switches, I don't remember anymore.
paul