Show and Tell: DEC VT102 and PiDP-11

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Show and Tell: DEC VT102 and PiDP-11

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Chuck Hutchins

Күн бұрын

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@debugin1227 Ай бұрын

beauty

@toddtrillo7445 Ай бұрын

Absolutely gorgeous set up , would love to have a VT102 and hope to purchase the PiPD 11 kit some stage

@LeopardBsod Ай бұрын

Dear Santa.....

@Xoferif Жыл бұрын

Can you imagine what an awesomely powerful setup that would've been in the late 70s / early 80s?

@HutchCA Жыл бұрын

The 80s was the prime time for the PDP-11 and VT100. A Raspberry Pi would have probably qualified as a super computer in the 80s.

@MattKasdorf Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reminder of my youth.

@andymcgarty3099 Жыл бұрын

Brought back lots of memories. Needs a tape deck whirring along to complete the package :)

@geekwithsocialskills Жыл бұрын

Your DEC VT102 is in mint condition! I've never seen one so clean before. Very cool seeing you connect to a BBS with it. I was a little sad you didn't fire up a game of Zork on it. Maybe in your next DEC VT102 video? 🙂

@HutchCA Жыл бұрын

It was pretty dirty when I got it. The dirt may have helped prevent yellowing 😉 Actually I think I scrubbed so hard with the magic eraser I scrubbed off any discoloration. There's a link to photos in the description that shows the original condition.

@geekwithsocialskills Жыл бұрын

@@HutchCA A nice layer of dirt does sometimes help prevent yellowing 🙂 and your photos of before and after the cleaning... wow! Again, nicely done on your cleaning and restoration.

@garthhowe297 Жыл бұрын

I loved working with terminals in my first IT support job..but I really love that PiDP-11...how awesome.

@HutchCA Жыл бұрын

Yeah, in the 90's I used to work on a PDP-11, but a later model without the blinkenlights. We had a wall of VT100s and printers handling messaging services.

@hstrinzel 2 ай бұрын

Would be nice to see a full-screen application, where the cursor positioning, bold etc. is used, something like WordStar or dBASE or whatever they equivalent for the DEC PiDP-11. :) Thank you, a great video.

@dave4shmups Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video! The way that the motherboard is laid out inside the terminal reminds me of the inside of an old black and white Macintosh.

@gklinger Жыл бұрын

Wow! That terminal looks new. Thanks for the video, Chuck.

@NomDayPloom 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this! PDP-11 was my first exposure to general purpose computing. And the memories are still strong. :)

@retroCombs Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Really enjoyed this and makes me want to finally get my PiDP-8 put together.

@HutchCA Жыл бұрын

Wow! Thank You. That's my very first "Super Thanks"

@JamiesHackShack Жыл бұрын

Need to have a PiDP-8 build party! @retrocombs

@retroCombs Жыл бұрын

@@HutchCA You are welcome! I remember my first. Happy to contribute. You have some great content and I've learned a lot with still more to learn.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 11 ай бұрын

Try doing assembly-language programming on a 12-bit machine which can only fit 7 address bits into a memory-reference instruction.

@retroCombs 11 ай бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Hard pass for me on that one! 😂

@RudysRetroIntel Жыл бұрын

Great video! Super clean inside and out! Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas

@woodch 6 ай бұрын

My first computer experience of any kind (that I remember) is using a college PDP-11 on VT-100/102 terminals. They also had VT-52s with the wacky buzzer instead of the speaker, and some other brand/model I can't remember-- black and metal... Olivetti maybe?

@yagotudela 5 ай бұрын

I love !!! Thanks for sharing .( Me encanta !!! Gracias por compartir )

@LeeCourtney Жыл бұрын

Very nice, thanks.

@devMashcom Жыл бұрын

Hey Hutch! Always great to see you drop another video. I was thinking it would be fun to connect my Televideo 950 to the serial port on my RPi and then ssh to my Windows dev box, and run my build scripts from the 950. Lol! Merry Christmas!🎄

@agle_6098 Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@raymondallo9947 Жыл бұрын

Still know the numeric keypad commands by heart using the EDT editor on RSX. And what a solid keyboard it was. So many fond memories. Playing the famous Dungeon game. You are in the cave and labyrint and seems you are lost. Would you like a hint. It will cost you a treasure. Y/N .. Y. Don't go West. Or how to get past the Snake. Pick up the bird cage, pick up somewhere else the bird. Go to the snake release the bird and it chases the snake away. Fie Fie Foo magic words. OMG we spend so many evenings playing the game and had drawn the cave system on paper on the wall.

@ropersonline Жыл бұрын

9:27: If you edited the last 23 seconds to loop and turned that footage into a ten-hour video with modest ASMR beeps and bops, I bet that would get a bunch of views. Alternatively, make the audio something like early computers playing Christmas songs, and I reckon you'd be on to a winner.

@HutchCA Жыл бұрын

I made a GIF of it a few years ago. twitter.com/HutchCA/status/1253798958435991552

@GeoffSeeley Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of my university days playing multi-terminal, multi-player "hunt" on the VT-52 terminals... Man, I think I had on old DEC VT100(?) terminal with an amber screen/separate keyboard but for some (stupid) reason I got rid of it decades ago now 😞

@daffyduk77 11 ай бұрын

vt52s had the most awful aggravating half-beep, half-growl sound. VT100 couldn't come a moment too soon for me

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 11 ай бұрын

The DEC VT100 had the loudest beep. If you were running the TALK program to someone in the library, and you wanted to be really mean, just send them a string of CTRL/G characters.

@miked4377 Жыл бұрын

beautiful machine sir...very nice!

@edgeeffect 8 ай бұрын

I've always dreamed of having a VT-100! For me, they are THE terminal. I'm a little disappointed that the PiDP comes up with a Debian login prompt, I'd like to to just run the emulator on the console right away so you're straight in with an RSTS (or whatever) login prompt right from the get-go.

@gman83090 Ай бұрын

"The DEC VT 100 terminal is notoriously linked to the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine's fatal malfunction due to faulty programming code. It is exactly the same terminal it's just the cheaper variant of it .

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 11 ай бұрын

0:14 Also I think the VT102 fixes those interesting ROM bugs that were present in the original VT100.

@MaggieKeizai Жыл бұрын

Wow! How can I get/make the base you have your PiDP-11 sitting on? Mine's just sitting on the wood it came with, but the repro of the rack topper thingy you have under it really sets it off! Way cool!

@HutchCA Жыл бұрын

I just painted the wood base black and printed the DEC rack topper on 11x17, cut, laminated and stuck it on the front with double-sided tape.

@JamiesHackShack Жыл бұрын

@@HutchCA I was beaten to ask the same question! thanks for sharing how you did that. I'd like to do something similar for my stand.

@MaggieKeizai Жыл бұрын

@@HutchCA Thanks! It really does look good. I've been thinking about making a "tiny rack" for mine with a logo and... other stuff. Maybe just a cabinet door covered in black tolex to match the original and help keep my desk tidier.

@mrthreeplates Жыл бұрын

Awesome vt102! Where did you get your base for your Pidp11? I must have one for mine!

@HutchCA Жыл бұрын

I painted the wooden base black and printed the label.

@mrthreeplates Жыл бұрын

@@HutchCA well done, that base looks fantastic.

@brianv2871 6 ай бұрын

Hey Chuck. Didn't realize you had a video on this, found it while I was googling when my pidp-11 died (sd card corrupted after multiple power outages - important note, back up the sd card, it's a pain to make a new one unless you use a pi 4 as the new image is for that). Anyway, the base... what did you use for that.. did you make something different or is that some kind of sticker or something around the wood?

@HutchCA 6 ай бұрын

Just black spraypaint over the included wooden base. I printed the 'digital' image, "laminated' it with packing tape and stuck it to the base with double sided tape. I did make an image of the SD card not long ago.