VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

Johnny Billquist bqt at update.uu.se
Thu Oct 22 09:36:59 CDT 2015


On 2015-10-22 16:32, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> On Oct 22, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at Update.UU.SE> wrote:
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>> ...
>> The VT100 is field upgradeable to a VT101 (I think) or a VT102 (I know). However, the VT102 is not the same as a VT100 with the added AVO and printer. Functionally they are the same, but inside they will look different.
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> That doesn't sound right.
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> The way I remember it is that the VT100 comes in several configurations (for example AVO or not) and you can field modify it from one to another.
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> On the other hand, the VT101 and VT102 are fixed configs (that is, not intended to be field upgradable), roughly matching the base and AVO versions of the VT100 in functionality.
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> It may be that you could, with enough knowledge, turn a VT101 into a VT102 or vice versa, but that wasn't a supported operation from what I remember.

Paul, I think you just said the same thing I did. Did you misunderstand 
me, or did I do a typo somewhere?

	Johnny

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