27 Jun
2016
27 Jun
'16
7:55 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Pete Lancashire
<pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:
Rather have a C Itoh CT-101e ..
I can probably help with that. I'm in Ohio and I get out to Chicago
and NJ a couple of times a year. I have a cabinet of CiTOH terminals
I bought from my employer "some years ago". ;-) We used an
assortment of DEC VT10x, VT220, CiTOH 101 and CiTOH 101e terminals.
ISTR the CiTOHs were as much as $800 cheaper than DEC terminals at the
time. They were robust and at one point, I pulled out of the manuals
the magic escape sequence to "switch sessions" and use the local
printer port as a second comms line (we just had to bang out a custom
DB25 adapter since the entire company was standardized on Nevada
Western 6p6c modular serial and we didn't have a box of the right
adapters for the printer port). It was awesome having two live lines
in front of our usual switchbox setup for connecting to multiple
hosts.
... knew one of the developers
Neat!
F/W was done in the US I can no longer remember the
key combination but the
terminal would let you know who did it
That would be fun to look up.
Anyone wants to gain a cubic foot or two let me know
You got it!
-ethan
27 Jun
27 Jun
9:12 a.m.
Pity you don't go West as well, I'm in Portland Oregon but maybe
something could be worked out. When not in a rush I've been able to
arrange back seat/trunk shipments.
Sounds like the same. I was at company called Tektronix and I was the
one to introduce the CIT-101. We bought a
lot of DEC gear, and even shipped a product with a rebranded PDP11/40,
at one time were one of DEC's largest
buyers of PDP's. One would think that would get us a good discount.
One day the VT-101 started to die, at the
same time I needed some DL11W's, so I added the VT100 to the request
for quote. The discount on the VT
was something like $25, basically nothing. And then out of nowhere, I
get a letter from a friend who had gone
to work for a small contract engineering company and he tells me he's
been working on the firmware for VT100
clone. Anyway not long after that I had a loaner from C Itoh, and
arranged a demo. I requested a quote for 25
CIT-101's and can't remember but damn close to 1/2 of what DEC was
charging for theirs. When DEC found out they
were not very happy.
BTW Technical Magic was formed to make Video Games.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Pete Lancashire
<pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:
Rather have a C Itoh CT-101e ..
I can probably help with that. I'm in Ohio and I get out to Chicago
and NJ a couple of times a year. I have a cabinet of CiTOH terminals
I bought from my employer "some years ago". ;-) We used an
assortment of DEC VT10x, VT220, CiTOH 101 and CiTOH 101e terminals.
ISTR the CiTOHs were as much as $800 cheaper than DEC terminals at the
time. They were robust and at one point, I pulled out of the manuals
the magic escape sequence to "switch sessions" and use the local
printer port as a second comms line (we just had to bang out a custom
DB25 adapter since the entire company was standardized on Nevada
Western 6p6c modular serial and we didn't have a box of the right
adapters for the printer port). It was awesome having two live lines
in front of our usual switchbox setup for connecting to multiple
hosts.
... knew one of the developers
Neat!
F/W was done in the US I can no longer remember
the key combination but the
terminal would let you know who did it
That would be fun to look up.
Anyone wants to gain a cubic foot or two let me
know
You got it!
-ethan
9:22 a.m.
We used C Itoh terminals on our VAX back in the day. I think they were
the CIT 102s--at any rate, they had a 14" screen rather than a 12" one.
IIRC, they worked just fine; well-constructed units.
--Chuck
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