[Info-vax] Last Call for (New) DEC VT Terminals

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-06-27, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>
> The VT525 wasn't a complete terminal, it was just a 'system' box and a 
> keyboard. You needed to connect your own colour display.
>
> I suppose that with todays extremely low cost systems like the 
> raspberry, it should be possible to build something similar with a 
> network interface for LAT/Telnet/SSH connections, and to use the USB 
> ports to connect the keyboard and a printer.

Then there's just the small matter of running software on it which
can be truly classed as a _full_ and _accurate_ VT emulator.

Hint: many of the open source so-called "terminal emulators" don't
pass that test.

Simon.

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