The VT100 is compatible with both the previous DIGITAL standard and ANSI standards. Customers may use existing DIGITAL software designed around the VT52 or new VT100 software. The VT100 has a “VT52 compatible” mode in which the VT100 responds to control sequences like a VT52.

Information about the VT100 and VT200 terminal families and old Digital printers, from the DECWriter to the LN01 laser printer, including programming summaries. VT220 Programmer Reference Manual (EK-VT220-RM) .

This is the technical manual for the VT100 series video terminals. It contains information a service technician or engineer needs to operate, test, and repair the VT100 series to a component level. Chapter 1 Contains VT100 specifications and documentation ordering information.

VT100 User Guide Cover Chapter 1 Contents. Chapter 1 - Operator Information. Part 1 – Keyboard Control and Indicators. Monitor Controls. Audible Indicators (Tones) Part 2 – Set-Up Mode. SET-UP Features at a Glance; Determining What a SET-UP Feature Does; How To Change a SET-UP Feature; Setting the Answerback Message; Saving the SET-UP Features

The VT100 keyboard has a key arrangement similar to an ordinary office typewriter. In addition to the standard typewriter keys the VT100 has keys and indicators that generate escape and control sequences, cursor control commands, and show the current terminal status. You use the keyboard to transmit codes to the host.

The VT100 terminal normally performs a two-part function. It is an input device to a computer – information entered through the keyboard is sent to the computer. It is simultaneously an output device for the computer – that is, data coming in from …

In most current loop applications, the VT100 will be connected in a passive configuration – that is, current is supplied to the VT100. In this mode, the transmitter and receiver are both passive, both optically isolated, and the transmitter goes to the mark state when power is turned off.

The VT102 incorporates the most popular VT100 options – the advanced video option and the serial printer port – in its base design. Digital’s VT102 terminal gives you enhanced VT100 functionality.

One of Mike’s photos has the caption “We connected a VT100 to the serial port...”, but the terminal in the picture isn’t a VT100. Could it be a Volker-Craig? Message on newsgroup ont.general from a “P. Kern”, dated 10 February 1986 .

Special characters and line drawing (VT100 compatible) Alternate ROM; Alternate ROM special characters; Tables 5-11 through 5-13 show the character sets. The United States and United Kingdom character sets meet the standard of the "ISO international register of character sets to be used with escape sequences".