Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100)

Back in college I ended up rooming with a bunch of unix neck beards and we used a vt320 as our "house control system." It controlled a rack in the basement hooked up to sound systems, tv remote controls for the living room entertainment systems which included a 70in crt monitor that played movie rips from network storage. Fun times.

I love old terminals and I still have a VT520 which is still very practicable, it can do up to 115200 instead of rhe VT-100's 9600.

But most programs ignore termcap these days which is a huge issue. Running stuff through tmux helps but it's not ideal.

Every now and then I look for a vt320 from my university days. Still miss the smell of hot dust on CRT electron guns.