 DEC VT52 terminal | |
| Developer | Digital Equipment Corporation |
|---|---|
| Type | Video terminal |
| Release date | 1974/1975 |
| Predecessor | VT05 |
| Successor | VT100 |
The VT50 is a CRT-based computer terminal that was introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in July 1974. It provided a display with 12 rows and 80 columns of upper-case text, and used an expanded set of control characters and forward-only scrolling based on the earlier VT05. DEC documentation of the era refers to the terminals as the DECscope, a name that was otherwise almost never seen.
The VT50 was sold only for a short period before it was replaced by the VT52 in September 1975.[1] The VT52 provided a screen of 24 rows and 80 columns of text and supported all 95 ASCII characters as well as 32 graphics characters, bi-directional scrolling, and an expanded control character system. DEC produced a series of upgraded VT52's with additional hardware for various uses.
The VT52 family was followed by the much more sophisticated VT100 in 1978.
- ^ "1975 Timeline". gordonbell.azurewebsites.net.