A cool little project came our way, which we thought might be of interest to some of you vintage computer buffs. [Joerg Hoppe] wrote in to share a DEC VT100 terminal he resurrected in a novel fashion.

When Datamedia announced their new DT80 terminal as a VT100 killer back in 1979, they were so confident of its reliability, they threw in a full one-year warranty. Now, decades later, that confidence ...

This complete ASCII VT100-compatible terminal basically comprises a single PIC MCU, a handful of discrete components, and a bunch of connectors. Before I digress — and we all know I’m going to — let ...

Run telnet, and at the prompt type 'set term VT100'. This will set it to the vt100 terminal type. There's other features too, which you can see by typing help at the prompt. Also, Hyperterminal, which ...

First off, apologies if this has been covered elsewhere...the use of the search produced no results.<BR><BR>Anyway, I pulled the trigger on a new MacBook today, after doing a bit of research as to ...

Editor’s Note: This “How it Was” story, as told by Benny Attar, really takes me back in time. When I started with Cirrus Designs back in 1981, we had a single PDP 11/23 computer that we all shared (we ...