VT100 colors

[Magnus Ringman]

A guess, but a confident one: the white part of the VT100 casing would
originally have been the same white as the VAX11 metal cabinets were
painted in.
Look at promotional brochures from the era that include a VAX and a
terminal.
The color might well be a FED-STD-595 one, and/or a very similar Pantone
one.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 4:00 PM Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

>
> > On Jun 21, 2021, at 6:48 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 21/06/2021 07:51, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
> >> I want to say that it’s white.  Though I can’t get to mine right now.
> >>
> >> Zane
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPod
> >>
> >>> On Jun 20, 2021, at 10:50 PM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know what colors a VT100 is?  Most photos online has it
> >>> looking yellowish, but I expect that's from aging.  Some people I have
> >>> asked claim it was a light cream color.  This bitsavers picture has it
> >>> looking neutral grey:
> >>> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/terminal/vt100/vt100_wps-8.jpg
> >>>
> >>> And the black parts are claimed to be dark brown.
> >>>
> >>> I haven't found any color codes in the manuals.
> >
> >
> > I can't get t mine either but I think they were originally light cream,
> but not bright white.
> >
> > I suspect that most photos have it as yellowish because that's what they
> are now :-)
> >
> > The black bits I remember as black.
> >
> >
> > I remember the tube colour being green, I think I remember seeing amber
> and I believe that white was an available option.
>
>
> I’m pretty sure that the black is black.  I am not sure, but I want to say
> that the tubes in mine are B&W, not green or amber.  I think that I had 3
> and I think that I still have 2, I’m sure that I still have one with a
> Q-Bus card cage.
>
> Zane
>