On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:05:06AM -0500, Sue Skonetski wrote:
> I remember at DEC when we all at VT100’s and then the big day came
> when we could upgrade to the “New Color” monitors Ah just to think
> of the orange glow of the words radiating from the screen. Of
> course you could get green as
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 6:43 PM, rod wrote:
> I always considered the VT05 to be art or sculpture.
> However DEC never produced anything else in the same style.
The VT8-E used a similar or identical housing.
> On Nov 10, 2015, at 8:43 PM, rod wrote:
>
> Hi
> I always considered the VT05 to be art or sculpture.
> However DEC never produced anything else in the same style.
They did, actually, but it was a rather obscure product: the VT20. That's a
local editing terminal for Typeset-11, for newspape
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Subject: Re: VT100 - FUN
I remember joining DEC in early October 1973. At the time I was working for a
small local company called Newbury Labs.
We designed and built what were then called glass teletypes. Twenty four lines
of eighty characters, upwards scrolling only,shift registers for memory
> On Nov 10, 2015, at 5:23 PM, Robert Jarratt
> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: VT100 - FUN
>
> I remember joining DEC in early October 1973. At the tim
Now that would be a find.
As it so happens one of the guys who worked with me at NL
lives locally and we are both on the local council so I see him often.
In fact his wife (also councilor) was here yesterday.
As he was still there after I left to join DEC he may know more.
The keyboards some we
>
> I remember joining DEC in early October 1973. At the time I was working
> for a small local company called Newbury Labs.
When I was an undergraduate at Cambridge University (1985-1988) they were
still using (somewhat later) Newbury terminals on the mainframe. Due to the
metal cases they wer
See my previous email - I did do it that way round-
my memory for detail in the distant past is not as good as it was
Rod
On 10/11/15 15:42, tony duell wrote:
They were for video in and out. You could sync the VT100 to a feed of
mono video and the overlaid
picture would appear on the screen a
I remember joining DEC in early October 1973. At the time I was working
for a small local company called Newbury Labs.
We designed and built what were then called glass teletypes. Twenty
four lines of eighty characters, upwards scrolling only,shift registers
for memory. TTL everything else.
I
I remember at DEC when we all at VT100’s and then the big day came when we
could upgrade to the “New Color” monitors Ah just to think of the orange glow
of the words radiating from the screen. Of course you could get green as well.
Not a lot of choice compared to today but ground breaking at t
>
> They were for video in and out. You could sync the VT100 to a feed of
> mono video and the overlaid
> picture would appear on the screen and at the video out connector.
Actually, I beleive (confirmed by the VT100 tech manual and schematics)
that you have to sync the external video to the VT1
Ah yes forgot that bit (thirty plus years is a while back) Tee adapter
on VT100 out, cable to cam sync in on cam - cam out to vt100 in.
Ill give it a go later- my video titler has an ext sync connector
On 10/11/15 10:59, Christian Corti wrote:
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, rod wrote:
They were for video
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, rod wrote:
They were for video in and out. You could sync the VT100 to a feed of
mono video and the overlaid picture would appear on the screen and at
the video out connector.
AFAIR you couldn't. You had to synchronize the external video source to
the VT100.
Christian
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 07:52:51AM +, rod wrote:
>
> Now there was one interesting but little known VT100 feature. On the
> back it had two BNC connectors.
> They were for video in and out. You could sync the VT100 to a feed
> of mono video and the overlaid
> picture would appear on the screen
Hi Guys
Going back to the days when I worked in marketing in DEC
Park (Then new ,now demolished)
I had a VT100 on my desk. We all did, email, word processing graphics
and so on.
Now there was one interesting but little known VT100 feature. On the
back it had two BNC connectors.
They
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