Video terminals at Slovenian Computer Museum: VT52/100/220/320/420/510 and more

Video terminals at Slovenian Computer Museum: VT52/100/220/320/420/510 and more(racunalniski-muzej.si)

15 points by markostamcar 5 years ago | 9 comments

Diederich 5 years ago |

Holy crap, I spent endless hours back in the 80s in front of this VT220: https://i1.wp.com/www.racunalniski-muzej.si/wp-content/uploa...

They were connected to a VAX/VMS mainframe cluster at 19.2kbits.

Thanks for sharing!

markostamcar 5 years ago | |

The poor guy still needs some love, however I decided to post the photo anyways :) We did a "first pass" cleaning of everything collected since 2004 but have only recently found a permanent home and storage for our collection - so much left to do, but it's a pleasure polishing the milestones of yesteryear :)

shimonabi 5 years ago |

Hey, I'm also from Slovenia and wanted to do the same thing for my private collection.

A month ago, a guy in Maribor had (maybe still has?) a non-working DEC VT101, a working Gorenje Paka 3000 and some terminal printers, but he didn't want to sell anything separately, so I didn't buy anything from him.

I have a feeling you know of him.

markostamcar 5 years ago | |

Zdravo :) You're welcome to visit us once we (hopefully) open in the second part of the year. We are aware of a few local private collectors and admire how they cherish their treasures. The museum does not have a budget for acquisition but thankfully we have already received many generous donations and will make sure as many visitors as possible can experience them!

Tepix 5 years ago |

This new museum reminds me of the Binarium, a small (1000sqm) computer/game console museum in Germany. https://binarium.de/

Tepix 5 years ago |

Very cool. I look forward to visiting it soon.

Some of these old serial terminals can do real graphics but the whole topic is rather obscure (which makes it more interesting i suppose).

markostamcar 5 years ago | |

Author here. Thanks and welcome :)

Dynamically Redefined Character Set (DRCS) was introduced with DEC VT200 and even though online information is scarce, there is enough there to make it work on a real machine.

Even more interesting are the Yugoslavian/Slovenian video terminals with their own custom graphics modes and features - it is a lost art but we at the Museum are working on bringing it back!

markostamcar 5 years ago | | |

And there is also ReGIS / Remote Graphic Instruction Set by DEC - unfortunately none of our terminals support it.