Terminals

The Archaic Computer Gallery

This is a Burroughs SR 110 Terminal from circa 1982.

TechSpecs:

Z80 microprocessor
20K RAM
20K ROM
screen presentation
- 12 inch non-glare CRT
- 24 line * 80 column display
- 25th line status line
- 11 * 7 dot matrix w/2-dot lowercase descenders
- 60 or 50Hz refresh rate, for flicker-free display
video attributes
- underline
- reverse video
- blink
- bold (double brightness)
- hidden video
- displayable control characters
- multipage capability
keyboard
- detached, solid state-capacitive scan technology
- auto key repeat
- audible alarm
- 95 key keyboard
  - ASCII pad
  - cursor-control section in ASCII pad
  - numeric and function key pad
  - lighted caps lock key
  - 6 lighted status indicators
dimentions & weight
- 14"H (w/pedestal -- shown) * 17"W * 16"D
- 12"H (wo/pedestal)
- keyboard 4 lbs.; terminal 30 lbs. with pedestal
power
- on/off switch
- 117 VAC +-15%, 117 watts (1 amp)
- power-on self-test
Data communications
- 128 character ASCII code
- half duplex operation
- RS232 or TDI operation -- switch selectable
- synchronous or asynchronous communication
- odd, even or no parity
- data rate 50 to 9600 baud
- line monitor mode
- standard Burroughs communications including:
  - poll
  - select
  - contention
  - group poll
- buffered or fast fill screen
- mobile "HOME"
- single line transmission
- non-forms-mode transmits from HOME to present cursor position, or to ETX if one is present
- forms-mode transmits from beginning to end-of-form, or to cursor
Peripherals
- RS232 buffered full duplex serial asynchronous input/output port
- concurrent foreground data-enrty and background print
- independent peripheral data rate 50 to 19,200 baud
- independent peripheral parity odd, even, or none (auxiliary input and output have the same parity and extra stop bits, but independent data rates)

Operator's and Reference Manuals

Digital Equipment VT102
(Serial No. TA030736)
Circa April 1983

A fabulous piece of computer history -- Digital VT102 Video Terminal. This beautiful piece of equipment is clean considering the age. There is some yellowing, the bottom appears more so than the top. I fired it up and there appeared on the screen the number 4 with a blinking square cursor over it. Unfortunately, the test ended there as I have no keyboard for this. It made no crackling noises upon start and it appears to be clean inside (I took off the back to sneak a look).

PORTS:

unlabelled 25 pin (COMM. 2 maybe?)
COMM. 25 pin
VIDEO OUT (BNC)
KEYBOARD
20 ma. w/arrow pointing down (possible expansion)

This is a Terminal of unknown origen.
It is custom, in that everything seems to built in the keyboard unit, sans the monitor/printer.

This is a Heathkit Model IG-28 Color Bar and Dot Generator.
Circa 1969.

This is a Heathkit Model IO-1128 Vector Monitor.
Circa 1971.

Rockwell:

Rockwell 8R (Serial No. 218308) Circa mid 1970s early 1980s
This Vintage calculator has been fairly well persevered.

Operating examples found on the bottom of the 8R.
The calculator has 5 functions +, -, x, /, and %.

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