April 30th, 2012 by Benj Edwards
The Visual 102 Graphics Terminal
[ From BYTE Magazine, April 1984, p.56 ]
Discussion Topic of the Week: Have you ever used a serial terminal with graphics capabilities (and actually used it with graphics)? Tell us about it.
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The Visual 102 Graphics Terminal
May 2nd, 2012 at 12:59 pm
I’ve never owed a serial terminal that did graphics such as this one. I do remember being fascinated with graphical serial terminals, and remember playing with graphics using terminal emulators back in the day.
May 2nd, 2012 at 1:17 pm
I had a teacher from High school give me a dumb terminal that someone was throwing out. I was real excited but I could never get it to do anything, I had fun taking it apart.
My favorite line from the above ad: “The UL Listed VISUAL 102 exceeds FCC Class A requirements and U.S. Government standards for X-Ray emissions”.
May 2nd, 2012 at 4:44 pm
I love the “low profile keyboard.” Compared to what, a Grass Valley mixer?
May 11th, 2012 at 8:53 am
I don’t think I used one quite like this, but I remember drawing the unit circle on a terminal by plotting sin x + cos x = 1 and thinking it was about the coolest thing in the world. This was is the early 80s, possibly 1982. Ah, the memories.
May 15th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
We use Wyse Zenith Pro thin clients at my work today. They are modern day terminals that have Windows 7 imbedded. We use a more graphics intensive model as well, which is basically what the model above is.
August 6th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
I have a Visual 550 in my basement, and a tektronix 4006-1 on my desk. I do use them for graphics but of course it is thirty years too late.