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The picture of the VT100 brings back memories. I had one at home and would connect to our Vax 11/780 to program in FORTRAN using the EDT editor... using a 1200 baud modem.

(about 1981 or so)

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I shared a flat in London with two other geeks in the 90s and we wired up vt100 terminals in each of our rooms so we could talk to each other without leaving our rooms.

They didn't last long, they were quickly replaced by PCs on a lan so we could play Doom.

I wish I had kept my amber terminal. Great for working late at night, very focused. Having a modern display projecting amber colours just isn’t the same.

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