23 Dec
2025
23 Dec
'25
10:24 a.m.
On Mon, 22 Dec 2025, Christian Corti wrote:
"dumb"? Depends on what you mean by that.
It is not a "glass TTY"; the
Well, relatvely dumb. I agree that is has screen control commands. But it
is somewhat painful on most systems to operate with a 72x20 character
screen.
do full screen editing on one of those. And while
2400 baud is slow by
today's standards, it was blindingly fast for those of us used to ASR33s
or even Silent 700s.
IIRC the VT05 needs pause/spacing characters when operating above 300
bauds or so, so effectively reducing its speed.
This reminds me that I have a VT50 somewhere, also quite limited with its
80x12 (!) screen.
Christian