Re: VT100's

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Sep 6, 2018, at 4:06 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
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> On 9/6/18 12:42 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
>> It shows up in some of the DECdirectories (as do a lot of oddball VTs).
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> Like the VT62 'TRAX' terminal.

I know that one did get built, though probably not shipped much since TRAX was 
dead on arrival.  But its close relative, the VT61/t, did ship in significant 
numbers for Typeset-11 as the terminal for classified advertising entry and low 
end text entry.  It looks like a VT52 on the outside, but inside are a whole 
pile of boards, all single-sided etch with many hundreds of jumpers to 
compensate for not being two-sided.  Not cheap, presumably, but still cheaper 
than the VT71 with its LSI-11 and (character-mode) display processor, very 
roughly a text-only GT40.

        paul