Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [WANTED] Dec VT102
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:38:24AM +0000, Jacqui Caren wrote: > Alan Pope wrote:
> >I'd just like one to use sometimes as console. Simple as that.
>
> Ah! looks rather than functionality. In that case a defective
> unit would suffice and you could fit the gubbins from a
> more modern VT series or even a small TFT and full blown
> linux box emulting a VT102?
>
No, I'd like a real genuine VT102, warts an' all. In the same way I prefer
to play arcade games on real arcade machines rather than under MAME, I'd
like to use a VT102 in the way Dec intended :)
> Even if you found a VT10x the chance of it working for long are
> remote - mine were both very well looked after and they both
> died of old age a long time ago...
>
