DEC vt100 terminal stuff / parts available

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Tue May 4 18:05:54 2004

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 08:00:25AM -0500, Jay West wrote:
> So far my plan is to keep the vt102 chassis as spares, and ditch the 2.1
> vt100's. If anyone wants me to scavenge parts (logic board, power supply
> board, flyback, transformer, keycaps, crt tube, etc.) I would be happy to do
> that.

You wouldn't happen to have one of those cards that wedges in a slot in the
VT100 logic board that has a couple of 10-pin DEC serial connectors and
perhaps a cable? I've seen one once, but don't have one at the moment.
My memory is that they were most useful with a VT103 to cleanly hook the
ports on a DLV11J to the terminal port and the (optional) internal TU58s.

Seeing as how I _have_ a VT103 at home, and have always wanted to throw a
decent machine inside it (decent as in something with a hard drive and
capable of running anything from RT-11 up through some flavor of UNIX),
I think aquiring one of these serial adapter boards would be kinda handy...
not essential, just handy.

-ethan

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