> On Aug 11, 2019, at 7:45 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 1:18 AM Bob Smith via cctalk <cctalk@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
