DEC VT100 Terminal

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

The glorious VT 100, introduced in 1978.

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DEC VT100 terminal. [photo by Jason Scott flickr © [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode] ] 2776×2464

It's got 80×24 characters screen.

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DEC vt100 keyboard layout. Source: VT100 User Guide, Digital Equipment Corporation, EK-VT100-UG-001 (1978).

Interesting features of the keyboard:

[see Practical Emacs Tutorial]

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DEC VT100 terminal. [photo by Jason Scott flickr © [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode] ] 5616×3744
DEC VT102 terminal
DEC VT102 terminal. http://decpicted.blogspot.com/2010/05/dec-vt102-vt100.html
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DEC VT101 terminal. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vt100-adventure.jpg ] 2232×1868

[see GNU Emacs and XEmacs Schism]

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