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DEC VT220 Terminal

physical object
Identifier
2016.7.61
Description
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduced the VT220 terminal in 1983 to great success-within five years DEC had sold over one million terminals! The monochrome screen glowed either white, green, or amber text, and connected via serial line to a computer. Terminals like this replaced punched cards and typewriter-based terminals, like the IBM 2741.
Related Term
CRT Terminals (describes)
Related people
Kameron Vankoughnett (is documentarian of)
Institute for Computer Research, UW (was donor of)