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US$995 (equivalent to $5,300 in 2023) The ADM-3A was an influential early video display terminal, introduced in 1976. [1] It was manufactured by Lear Siegler and had a 12-inch screen displaying 12 or 24 lines of 80 characters. It set a new industry low single unit price of $995. [a] Its "dumb terminal" nickname came from some of the original ...
The VT100 is a video terminal, introduced in August 1978 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It was one of the first terminals to support ANSI escape codes for cursor control and other tasks, and added a number of extended codes for special features like controlling the status lights on the keyboard. This led to rapid uptake of the ANSI ...
A graphical terminal can display images as well as text. Graphical terminals [23] are divided into vector-mode terminals, and raster mode. A vector-mode display directly draws lines on the face of a cathode-ray tube under control of the host computer system. The lines are continuously formed, but since the speed of electronics is limited, the ...
The Tektronix 4010 series was a family of text-and-graphics computer terminals based on storage-tube technology created by Tektronix. Several members of the family were introduced during the 1970s, the best known being the 11-inch 4010 and 19-inch 4014, along with the less popular 25-inch 4016. They were widely used in the computer-aided design ...
The text-only monochrome IBM 2260 cathode-ray tube (CRT) video display terminal (Display Station) plus keyboard was a 1964 predecessor to the more-powerful IBM 3270 terminal line which eventually was extended to support color text and graphics. There were three models of 2260. Model 1 displayed 240 characters, formatted as six rows of forty ...
1 Mini-DIN 4-pin, 1 Mini-DIN 7-pin, 1 Mini-VGA, 2 BNC, 2 RCA connectors, 8-pin DIN, [2] SCART 21-pin. S-VHS, some laptop computers, analog broadcast video, 1980-1990s home computers including the Commodore 64, C128 and Atari 8-bit computers. The 4-pin mini-DIN that is most common in consumer products today debuted in JVC 's 1987 S-VHS.
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The VT640 board displays graphics at a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels on the VT100's monochrome, green-phosphor CRT.The board boasts full graphical compatibility with the Tektronix 4010 and featured the ability to plot individual points on the screen as well as solid, dotted, and dashed lines based on vector instructions, as well as the ability to selectively erase portions of the screen and ...