4004 and IC history / was Re: Vintage computer photogallery

[Tore Sinding Bekkedal]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 13:04 +0100, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> The design of the VT100 was done by one engineer who I met but I cannot
> recall his name. 

I believe you may be referring to Mike Leis.

I snapped a photo of him at a DEC reunion at The Mill:
http://gunkies.org/photos/mill/big/img_3513.jpg

Amongst other things, he told me that DEC considered the VT100 to be a
failure, since it never met the profit margin outlined in the project
proposal. 

The main reason they created the VT100 was because the VT52 was quite
hard to mass produce automatically.

-Tore