Hoard-of-bitfonts: bitmap fonts from disused operating systems

Re:Hoard-of-bitfonts: bitmap fonts from disused operating sy... by GekkePrutser on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:38PM (#27777919)

Did you ever use a real VT05?

I love serial terminals and I love the design of the VT05 (even though I know it's wayy too deep for a modern desk). It's just so cool and futuristic in a 70s star trek kind of way.

I also heard it wasn't simply a small microcomputer, it had everything in discrete logic on many PCBs which seems to be why it was so big. Really cool. I'd love to see one some day.

I volunteered at a computer museum that had a lot of DEC stuff but we had nothing older in terms of DEC terminal sthan VT100s. I still own an amber VT520 (though from the Boundless era after the terminal business was sold by DEC)

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Re:Hoard-of-bitfonts: bitmap fonts from disused operating sy... by tenebrisalietum on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:33AM (#27784728)

Nope, never used a real one. Yeah, from what I was reading it didn't have a single-chip CPU - but that's to be expected as the VT05 was introduced in 1970 and Intel didn't release first single-chip CPU 4004 until 1971.

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