[SunRescue] RE:DEC VT180s

[Ken Hansen]

I thought the VT180s were a neat idea, but, of course, if it doesn't have a PDP-11 core inside it, well, that just isn't enough geek points to peak my curiosity...

Ken

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Message: 1
From: woods at weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Dumb Term
Organization: Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 23:58:20 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org

[ On Monday, May 21, 2001 at 23:01:20 (EDT), dave at cca.org wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Dumb Term
>
> Did any of those vt100-with-a-microprocessor-crammed-in machines
> do well in the market? There were PDP-8, PDP-11, and Z80 versions,
> right? Did people consider them to be good personal computers in
> their day?

I've got a VT180 (i.e. the VT100 with z80, with dual 5.25" floppy
drives).  I never got around to finding the CP/M diskettes for it, and
since it worked just as well as a "dumb terminal" I used it as such (its
one with a switching power supply so even better/lighter/cooler than the
older ones!  :-).  I need to repair a blown electrolytic on the video
board again though....

There must have been quite a few in cirulation.  Back when I would have
liked to have had my own CP/M machine I think the VT180 would have been
a dream machine.  Much better than the Apple-II with z80 card I used one
summer long ago....