[HECnet] VT-62?

[Lee Gleason]

Back in the day, in a galaxy far far away, I was system manager of a site that used TMS-11, a DEC product for newspaper/graphics arts production.

Among a lot of other DEC gear most people have never heard of, we used VT/61 and VT/62 terminals.

They indeed were block mode terminals, but could be used in VT52 mode by setting a switch on the motherboard. That made them work like a normal serial terminal.

Sorry, I got rid of my hardware manuals for these a long time ago.

I do recall that they were very   popular at newspaper sites, since the area on them on the right side reserved for the wave graphics option was large enough and easily accessible enough to hold a fifth of whiskey, which was an important feature at a lot of newspaper sites.


-----Original Message----- From: Bob Armstrong
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 7:36 PM
To: hecnet at update.uu.se
Subject: [HECnet] VT-62?


      What can be done (non-destructive suggestions only, please) with a
VT-62?   This is NOT a VT52 (although it looks like one).   The VT62 is a
block mode terminal that, I think, actually speaks DDCMP.   AFAIK it's
incapable of being a plain ASCII terminal unless there's some hack I'm
unaware of.

  Right now the only thing I can think of is to part it out as spares
for my VT52.   I have two of the latter and it looks like at least some
of the major assemblies - CRT, keyboard, power supply - are identical.
I hate to do that, though, if there's a better use for it.

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Bob