[TUHS] CR delay for VT05

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Thu Jul 30 10:56:55 AEST 2020


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 at 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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