On 16-03-30 03:07 AM, Sean Kamath wrote:
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.
That would either have been a DEC Rainbow, which was a
hybrid-dual-processor 8088/Z80 machine that ran MS/DOS, CP/M *and* had a
full-blown VT220 emulator in ROM, or a VT180 "Robin" which was basically
a (Z80-based) VT102/VT103 with enough memory (i.e. 64k) to run CP/M off
the attached floppy drives.
I had a Rainbow, which is in *many* ways an architecturally fascinating
machine, during the late '80s/early '90s as my primary PC. I also had a
Northern Telecom Displayphone, and then later a DisplayPhone II, for
those of you with a perverse bent for terminal history.
Of course, I'm also the author of at least five termcap(5)/terminfo(5)
entries, some of which have not yet been superseded by better
definitions in the ncurses master list... so naturally I had some really
f*ing weird terminals at various points in my life.
I wish I could remember what the name was of the "portable" terminal I
once had - off-white (of course), looked like a Buck Rogers spaceship
(pointy cylinder) in profile, and the entire front two inches of it
unsnapped to become the keyboard kind of like an Osborne...
-Adam
