Favorite terminal At&t/WE Blit

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Sun Oct 13 02:44:00 2002

At 06:54 PM 12/10/2002 -0400, Heinz Wolter wrote:

>My fave terminal that I actually own is a working
>VT05 (looks like a stingray) - a picture of a VT05can
>be seen on some pdp11 handbooks, with the funky 60's
>pedestal and matching chairs and DecBabes.. The V05
>predates even the VT52 abd VT100's, not much in the
>way of control sequences - but hey it's got a 20mA loop
>and a termcap for unix/linux ;)

I wish I had a VT05 - I spent a lot of time programming on
a DECsystem-10 with it. In fact we hacked a copy of VTEDIT
to automatically save files you were editing every 5 minutes
as at one stage we had a slightly unreliable version of the
monitor installed. The only problem with a VT05 is that it
is an upper/lower case terminal with uppercase only display.
This lead to interesting problems with earlier versions of
tops-10 which didn't understand lower case versions of commands:

.dir
?dir?


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