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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] CR delay for VT05
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:09:00 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2008121204560.10877@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VRQSjnRXbAy_f7UDKKtEVDCdaZhak0tOkZoJ3hwO0tKuA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 30 Jul 2020, Paul Winalski wrote:

> The VT05 was designed to be a glass teletype.  Literally.  Hence the 
> screen width (same as a model 33 tty) and default upper-case only 
> transmission.  The CR delay might be there to mimic the CR delay of a 
> model 33, too.

Aha, thanks!

I seem to recall that the VT05's timing was locked to the mains frequency, 
hence the delays were not easily changed.

Hmmm...  50Hz vs. 60Hz?

-- Dave

      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-12  2:09 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
2020-07-30 16:42   ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-12  2:09     ` Dave Horsfall [this message]

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