| Make | Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Model | VT101 |
| Model Number | VT101 |
| Serial Number | TA61728 |
| Release Date | ? |
| Cost New | ? |
| Acquired | 2014-09-19 |
| Status | Operational |
The VT100 is the classic serial video terminal. It implemented a standard for escape codes to control the terminal, and VT100 emulation survives to this day. It was used to communicate with any machine that had a RS-232 serial interface, and was used extensively with the VAX line of computers.
It had an 80-character by 24 line display, but it could also do 132-character width, double-height, double-width etc. It had some basic box-drawing characters to allow some very basic graphics to be drawn. It was built around the Intel 8080 processor, which executes the firmware that implements the control of the terminal.
The VT101 is the most basic of the cost-reduced variants of the VT100, it has no expandability.
Restoration History
| Date | Details |
|---|---|
| 2014-11-01 | Cleaned up silicone grease around anode cap. |
| 2014-11-02 | Reformed capacitors on the PSU. |
| 2015–01-17 | PSU tested. Replaced C439 on the monitor board with 100uF 100V part, also replaced C437. |
| 2015-02-15 | 8085 found to be faulty, added socket for the 8085. |
| 2015-02-21 | Replaced 8085. |
| 2015-03-21 | Replaced electrolytics on monitor board to fix screen wobble. |
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