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In article <bqt.674098937@cia.docs.uu.se> bqt@cia.docs.uu.se (Johnny Billquist) writes:
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>Hi.
>
>I have just, for the first time in my life, laid my eyes on a VT103.

Scary, isn't it?

>This is a strange beast. It has the same lok as the standard VT100
>series, but it has, what it looks like, two DECtape II drives under
>the screen.
>
>Does anybody know anything about this one. Does it need some software
>from the DECtape, or is it just for storage, accessible by some
>escape codes? What processor does it have and so on.
>I can open it and see myself what processor it is, ok, but the rest
>of it?

The VT103 has an 18-bit backplane in it. (I know of people who modified
it to be 22-bit though.) You will have to open it up to find out what
processor is in it, but it will either be an 11/03 or an 11/23 CPU.
You can have the entire system (albiet VERY slow) run within the VT103
using the DECTape II as the system and data disk, but usually you have
an RX02 as the system/data disk.

I had one, but gave it away because it ate the basic video board for
breakfast every time you put a new one in...

Chris Kalisiak
kalisiak@acsu.buffalo.edu