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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] CR delay for VT05
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:56:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2PeuR6ARbmiO6qOB5bMOrQufppcJv-s_ye6e05OxAim+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2007300919210.76447@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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You wish.  VT05 was designed in 71 - straight TTL, no microprocessor.  Same
for the VT-52.  First micro was an 8085A in the VT1XX
Prints are: http://www.pdp8.net/query_docs/query_all.html

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 7:25 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jul 2020, Richard Tobin wrote:
>
> > Why would the VT05 (a VDU) need a delay for carriage return? I can just
> > about imagine that it might need one for linefeed if it shifted the
> > characters in memory.
>
> Given that the VT05 (shudder!) is broken in so many others ways e.g. 20x72
> screen, sends upper-case only unless you flip an internal switch, etc, I'm
> not surprised that it would also need a CR delay...
>
> Primitive firmware?
>
> -- Dave
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-30  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-19 23:32 Richard Tobin
2020-07-20  4:28 ` Random832
2020-07-29 23:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-30  0:56   ` Clem Cole [this message]
2020-07-30 16:42   ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-12  2:09     ` Dave Horsfall

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