DEC VT20 boot device

[Paul Koning]

> On Aug 11, 2019, at 7:45 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 1:18 AM Bob Smith via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> The VT20 design team was, iirc, John Kirk for the video, and me for
>> the Unibus interface in the first version. The one with the slick
>> one shown here,
>> http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/terminal/vt20/vt20_2.jpg
>> 
> 
> That looks pretty nice, since externally it just looks like a VT05 with
> extra buttons.
> 
> The vt20/b (photos in same directory), on the other hand, is one of the
> ugliest terminals I've ever seen.

It looks a bit like an early concept for what became the VT71.  The terminals directory also shows a thing called VT21 which appears to be identical to the VT71.  I wonder if the VT20/b and VT21 were engineering prototypes that were later released under the name VT71.

	paul