The VT640 Retro-Graphics, originally known as the VT100 Retro-Graphics, is an expansion board that was developed by Digital Engineering, Inc., for Digital Equipment Corporation 's popular VT100 terminal, allowing it to be used as a graphics terminal capable of a …

2007年1月11日 · Apart from the basic logic board, this VT100 contains an additional VT640 board by Digital Engineering in the cardcage, apparently part of the RetroGraphics enhancement. I understand this is a Tek401x emulation, and managed to test it with gnuplot. That's as far as I got.

2021年9月15日 · The Digital Engineering VT640 add-on graphics board for the VT100 was introduced in 1980 as the "Retrographics VT100". [1] Presumably DEC didn't like use of VT100 in the product name and by 1982 it was renamed the VT640 and sold for $1,495.

Digital Engineering introduced the VT640 in September 1980 as the second in their line of Retro-Graphics text-to-graphics-terminal conversion boards. A DEC VT100 with the VT-640 Retro-Graphics board installed

2015年7月14日 · The "VT640 Retro-Graphics " was a card to upgrade the DEC VT100 with 640x480 bitmap graphics. (Perhaps that's where the name "VT640" came from?) In 1981, the VT640 S cost $1230 and came as three boards for the user to upgrade. Some pictures show a lightpen being used, but I do not know how that was related to the VT640.

The ReGIS emulation enables you to run applications written for the DEC VT340 terminal in ReGIS mode. The Tek4014 emulation enables you to run applications written for the Tektronix 4010 and 4014 terminals. The VT640 emulation enables you to run applications written for the Retrographics VT640 terminal.

The VT640 emulation enables you to run applications written for the Retrographics VT640 terminal. The W2119 emulation enables you to run applications written for the Westward 2119 terminal.

The VT640 is the rarest and most sought-after high-end Cadillac version of the VT100.The DEC VT100 terminal could do only text, but it was the standard terminal in the IT industry for 10+ years.A company called Digital Engineering in California created a retrofit package to allow the VT100 to do high-resolution green screen graphics.

The HiScan terminals are modified DEC VT240 (monochrome) and VT241 (color) terminals. Although the monitors are still labelled ``Digital'', they have been internally modified, and therefore cannot be serviced by DEC.

This vintage DEC VT100 terminal, model number vt640, is a rare find for collectors and enthusiasts of retro-computing. The terminal is being sold as-is without a keyboard and is perfect for those who want to tinker with and restore vintage computing equipment.