Oddball Terminals (Was: Re: VT100's)

[Mark J. Blair]

> On Sep 7, 2018, at 8:41 AM, Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> The display was most likely a Tektronix 611. DEC used them with their point plot display systems like the VC8E.

I am pretty sure that the display was a 611 in its vertical configuration:

http://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/611

The display was a fully enclosed standalone unit, not a bare chassis. It sat on top of the bottom chassis of the terminal and then had another cover fitted over it.

It had screen burn which indicated its use as part of a text terminal, but I don't know if the character generation was originally performed in the bottom chassis or by external equipment. The small DEC wire wrap backplane in the bottom chassis didn't seem big enough to implement all of that with flip chips. Maybe the backplane was just used for keyboard interface, and character generation was done by equipment external to the terminal?

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