Still using a Wyse (50?) on my Ultrasparc 80.
In college, we had these weird DEC PC’s that we used as VT100 compatible
terminals.
There were so many. The VT100 was the prototype what XTerm emulated.
Sean
> On Mar 29, 2016, at 5:18 AM, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net>
wrote:
> Some things to search for:
> * DEC VT100 (a terminal that still influcences the standards today)
> * DEC VT52 (a terminal with an easier to understand command set)
> * ADM3A (a terminal that was old when the DEC vt100 came out)
> * DECwriter (printing terminal. DECwriter II was a beautiful machine)
> * TI Silent 700 ("home oriented" printing terminal. At the time, in the
> US, it was illegal to attach non-telephone company equipment to the
> telephone company's phone lines...)
> * ASCII (the non-IBM standard character coding system)
> * EBCDIC (the IBM standard)
> * ASR33 (one of the earliest printing terminals. And why we use
> "TTY" today in the Unix world! If you wonder why unix commands are so
> short, imagine typing on this...)
> * Tektronix 4010 (In case you thought terminals were dull and graphics
> free...and I suspect a LOT of people who have been rolling their eyes at
> everything I've said up to now will have their eyes bug out a bit when
> they figure out how these things work)
>
> Anything more than that (and probably a lot less than that), probably
> best to ask me off list. :) (and yes, I've glossed over and simplified
> a few things here)
>
> Nick.
