vt278

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 16:42:21 CST 2005


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:41:50 -0500 (EST), Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez
<carlos at jimulco.autonoma.edu.co> wrote:
> Ok.  It's been a while since I've had a Qbus card in
> my hands and this card really looked like one. Too bad that
> it won't accept a diagnostics terminal like the microvaxen.

It may have the same shaped edge fingers as a Qbus card, but it's not Qbus.
 
> Unfortunately I did not find the rest of the terminal.

That's a shame.
 
> There's a socket for a 5037 video crt controller in the card  (which is
> also missing). 

Hmm... there you go... that answers my earlier question... it wants to
generate its own video... if you can find a replacement 5037, you
could probably tap off the other end of that circuit and feed it to a
VR201 or any other "standard" NTSC / RS-170 mono monitor.

> What is the 1/4" plug connector for?

VT100 keyboard.

-ethan


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