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Old video terminals are beautiful. I owned an ADM-3a for a period, but gave it to a fellow collector because the flyback transformer whine gave me headaches (he
by floren 6y ago
Old video terminals are beautiful. I owned an ADM-3a for a period, but gave it to a fellow collector because the flyback transformer whine gave me headaches (he's old enough that he can't hear it). The VT100 definitely lives near the top of my wishlist... I've got a nice pair of Amiga machines, but I'd trade them both for a working VT100 with very little hesitation :)
- hazeii 6y agoThe first place I worked, the grunts got teletypes but the boss had an ADM-3A. Later on, I used a lot of different VT100 compatibles, plus genuine VT100s/VT10xs and (on occasion) ADM-3As. All connected to PDP11's of one sort or another. Personally, the nicest one I ever used was a Pericom [0], about the only model that I'd rate above the actual VT100. It had a few annoyances related to imperfect VT100 emulation, but it has the sharpest screen ever (there was some sort of a fine black mesh over the tube that enhanced the display). [0] http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?34615-Pericom-7800-Terminal-troubleshooting-Videoproblem http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?34615-Pericom-7800...
- mprovost 6y agoI was digging around the Unix history repo and found a BSD program cat3a [0] written by Bill Joy in 1977 to "cat to an adm3a quickly". It blanks the screen and prints a file directly to the tty at 80 columns wide. Of course that's the terminal that he also wrote vi on - it has arrows on the hjkl keys. [0] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-1-Snapshot-Development/s6/cat3a.c https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-1-S...