My biggest complaint with DEC terminals (and clones) that came after the VT100 (such as the VT220/VT320/etc) is that the terminals are nice and small but the keyboards are *huge* (almost twice the width of the terminal itself).
I like having a keyboard that matches the size of the terminal and the VT100 is along those lines. It is also the same complaint that I have with IBM 3178/9 terminals (e.g. connect to IBM 370 mainframes), where the terminal is relatively small but the keyboard is significantly wider (being a derivative of the IBM PC/AT keyboard) and IMHO would have been far better if IBM had left off the number pad. TTFN - Guy > On Sep 6, 2018, at 9:16 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > We didn't have a single VT100 in the house when we were running a VAX. > > C Itoh, CIT-220s in our case. Nice terminals with 14" screens. > > Lots of VT100/VT220 clones were popular. I did some programming for a > specific VT220 clone from TAB products. > > --Chuck > > > > > On 09/06/2018 09:03 AM, systems_glitch via cctalk wrote: >> I'm personally interested in an original because it's the physical standard >> that a lot of imitations and emulations decided to implement. For similar >> reasons, I have a LSI ADM-3A -- not because it's the best terminal ever, >> but because it is so interwoven into the history of UNIX. >> >> I personally seem to use a VT220 for most of my general hacking. It's nice >> to have the current loop interface!
