New England Seeking Twiggy Drives for Lisa - Offering DEC VT05 Terminal or Boxed Rev. 0 Apple II

[tcolegrove]

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Hey everyone. I'm seeking a twiggy floppy drive set for my Apple Lisa 1. Doesn't need to be in working condition. Offering in exchange either a VT05 terminal in need of restoration or a near flawless Apple II rev. 0 (serial #1104) complete with its original box. PM me if you have what I need!

 

[agentb]

Wow, never even realized there was a VT05, very cool to see. Good luck on the Twiggy.

 

[pbirkel@gmail.com]

VT05 = Very space-age case plus very limited functionality; a real "glass teletype" ... and a bit more (scrolling and cursor addressing). Iconic but you needed a very big desktop or a separate roller-stand. VT50/52 had the same large form-factor challenge.

 

[agentb]

And apparently you could feed video into it and the text would be overlaid, that’s certainly something

 

[whartung]

And apparently you could feed video into it and the text would be overlaid,

Actually, that would be something to see.

 

[Eudimorphodon]

And apparently you could feed video into it and the text would be overlaid, that’s certainly something

I wanted to say you saw one doing that in the movie “Westworld”, but digging around it looks like I’m probably misremembering. Pretty sure there’s at least one bad 70’s sci-fi movie showing off that capability, though…