DEC VT05 video terminal from 1973 in action

[Gormound9]

It's as slow as Windows Explorer.

[cygil1]

I realize I've already seen this model a lot.: It starred in dozens of movies in the seventies, especially those with a futuristic theme! Definitely a classic retro-futruistic design.

[MattTheSaiyan]

The case still looks pretty futuristic.

[MGazT]

how is this kind of technology possible?

[ThePiggy351]

@MGazT Code is compiled to binary and then run commands and functions under 16, and 32 bit architectured CPU's. Then CPUs read binary and follow the instructions, basically that not exactly though. Yes even this computer is amazing, I have no idea how people came up with todays Operating systems. Never ever take your technology for granttie, it's amazing stuff!

[guarapo66]

cool keygen music

[fishcomputer33]

@guarapo66 Lol. Although it could be called keygen music, it would better fit under "chip tune".

[dinnerandashow]

I actually liked these terminals at the library.

The equally spaced text, the soft amber green glow, and the neatly arranged printouts.

[destrierofdark]

Good old days of minicomputers. Though, those terminals seriously need an X version, similar to the Commodore 64X remake.

[fox270988]

=^,^=

[Netriderceo]

Also known as the "Hipster iMac": "It uses an obscure computer language you've probably never heard of but it's really cool. I consider myself sort of a techno-freegan. I don't believe in paying a lot of money for disposable technology. I got this at Good Will for $1. It was either this or a vintage Commodore 64 but it didn't have a monitor and I won't own a TV so..."

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

That music is WAY too modern for this video.

[AssemblerGuy]

I love how the design tries it's best to look like something off of a futuristic spaceship, yet today it REEKS 1970's!

Could be SWEET to use my current computer as an "interpreter" between this terminal and teh Interwebs(tm), and do things like IM and home banking in the pale blue flicker of this gadget :-D

[FHCTech]

@AssemblerGuy

I kind of like the retro-futuristic look of the device. When you clean it up, it looks like the perfect addition to your EVIL LAIR that you will use to PLOT THE DEMISE of your ARCH NEMESIS.....

Or it could be one very sweet pong console :)

[Wesley683]

look at terminal behind this terminal 0:20... looks like FO3 terminal

[hakaider]

@Wesley683 That's a Lear Siegler ADM3A Terminal in the background.

[Wesley683]

@hakaider cool. i didn't know.

[Wesley683]

@hakaider do you have a video showing that terminal? i really want to see it

[BorgMX5]

@hakaider Ah yes, the ADM-3A I think you actually had to use CTRL-H because there was no backspace.

[mrnathangunn]

Can you play PONG on that thing?

[lifes22]

Класно! 

[Klitaka]

@ZnaxQue It's funny that you say that about the printing speed, because the terminal is displaying the text as fast as it receives it, over a 2400 baud connection!

[19psi]

@Klitaka

I doubt that's 300 baud let alone 2400. Appears to be exactly 150.

[krakenvshydra]

nice design

[Eragarev]

"Nostromo rerouted to new co-ordinates. Investigate life form. Gather specimen. Priority One. Insure return of organism for analysis. All other considerations secondary. Crew expendable"

[darkdevil905]

I dont know why dont make computers like this ones they look so awesome the new generation ones just look so simple !

[TheSektorz]

That's what I'd call a DOS BOX... A cute little old comp running on ms-dos, with a nice little monitor... I bet I could play Lotus on this! Nah, I ain't betting, Lotus was quite the heavy game for it's time. Anyways, great vid!

[Klitaka]

@TheSektorz It's not really a computer like we think of today — just a "dumb" text terminal with enough ROM to connect it to the server computer which actually ran the programs (usually over a serial port, back when a full computer was incredibly expensive). This was one of the early "glass terminals" that started to replace teletype printers in the old multiuser UNIX systems, but doesn't have enough onboard to run programs of any kind.

[TheSektorz]

@Klitaka I know what they were back then man, I'm well interested, and always have been, in the old machines.

[Xezlec]

I absolutely LOVE this stuff. The march of technology has been an amazing ride, but the aesthetics of an earlier time are still exciting in ways modern styling just isn't. One of these days I'm going to get my hands on a vintage terminal and hack together a way to connect it to a modern Linux box. Then I can do all my programming with it!

[summer20105707]

I love the look of these terminals. Beautifully designed.

[eMGeeGFX]

@summer20105707, indeed and this one in particular!

[zxcv1234vcxz]

Ah, memories of college. I used VT100s at my institution, and it was running a VAX11/780 first then a VAX 4500.

Unfortunately such computer are useless today, but there's one thing that VAXes had that was far superior to DOS, Linux or Windoze - that incredibly versatile and powerful DCL (digital command language). You could write entire functioning programs in it, never mind the feeble batch and command files of DOS and Linux.

[eMGeeGFX]

@zxcv1234vcxz, I fully and wholeheartedly agree! 

[GreatNorthWeb]

that machine has such a beautiful shape...more curves than any modern apple product.

[cybermarsactual]

god you must get alot of work done.

[bhkidd]

They had these terminals in the Middle Tennessee State University library when I graduated in 1992. Slow as Xmas, and clunky input system. But, it is what we had.

[porcorosso81]

Wow, did I see correctly that the operating system is Y2K compliant?

[HaterByProfession]

Very, very bad video. Really. 

[lukebccb]

Hey don't laugh those terminals stayed around well into the 90s.

[aseglkj]

this case looks like it has enough room to put a full size pc in the back.

[tetrazonian]

What were the purpose of these anyway? Sending info? Encrypting info? Writing programs?

[richardmaudsley77]

@tetrazonian It's a terminal. Back in the day, even drawing the letters on the screen and understanding what was being typed on the keyboard was a lot of work for a computer, so you'd use one of these to do all of that while the computer did real stuff.

[AcEoMaTiK]

Wow, check out the serial speed on that terminal! I know 300 baud when I see it!

;)

[MASTURCHEEF001]

FALLOUT 3 COMPY RIGHT HERE

[rlui123]

looks like somebody stuck an industrial kiosk into a box from "2001: A Space Odyssey"

[lekkimsm2500]

Aerodynamically fast!

[eMGeeGFX]

That's a great design indeed, it doesn't look *so* extremely outdated either. I've seen 1980s era equipment that looks ‘older.’

[sbalogh53]

That terminal design looks like it is straight out of Star Trek. :) :) :)

[pvx]

@sbalogh53 Yes, the VT05 actually got the nickname of the "Star Trek Terminal"among it's early users...!!!

[Darbyjack]

A computer with no microchips. Amazing.

[GIKKIO3D]

is hte PC with THE BEST DESIGN EVER.......is good also today!

[hakaider]

@Davidecda95 ORiON Keygen Music - look 4 this vid: dvFzMe4tB1I

[hakaider]

@ZnaxQue ORiON Keygen Music - look 4 this vid: dvFzMe4tB1I

[NYz3R0dAY]

@hakaider use that video ID as i unlisted my video.

[JesusManson323]

What would you when the keyboard died?

[sbalogh53]

@JesusManson323 the case would be opened and the keyboard would probably be repaired right down to the component level. We had hundreds of Teleray terminals back in the mid 1980's which we repaired in house in a fully equipped repair shop. This was before equipment was thrown away when broken. Even terminals that could not be easily repaired were kept so its parts could be salvaged for other repairs. Not much was wasted.

[Robloxian182]

that looks like a futuristic computer from the 80's......i like it! :D

[lemonrind]

Is there a text-based solitaire game for it? That's all I'm using my new computer for anyway.

[AnalogAudio1]

that looks unbelievable cool! The design is mindblowing... white casing, black keyboard with blue characters on the display... it's a pleasure looking at it.

[Astroboi64]

@asayezvous HELL YEA!

[zurriagazo71]

is that unix??? oh my god! is it??

[MOSTechnology]

Looks so cool and hi-tech. A real computer that intimidated the plebs.

[Cobac]

yes yes BUT ...... can IT RUN CRYSIS ?

[mongrelchild]

fuck dudes, 2010 industrial design doesn't even come close to this, i fucking love this era

[kirk1968]

@mongrelchild Agreed. Today's design blows.

[mcwooley]

Awesome music! Who wrote it? Was it programed using this computer?

[anthrocite]

What u-processor was inside? The 4004 existed, but I bet it is just logic chips. I used a circa 1973 VT-05B, 16 lines of 64 char, uppercase I believe. Excellent antiglare screen. How big was a Vaxstation? In 1988, about the size of a full-size modern pc tower, perhaps a bit wider. VT05 was NOT a mainframe terminal, it was an ASCII terminal used with minicomputer time-sharing systems like pdp-11 running RSTS/E, RT-11 or RSX-11. Or older pdp-8. RS-232C 25 pin serial interface, was 20mA loop avail?

[linuxrobotdude]

Yay mainframe terminal!!!

[jay5embee]

Song is by ORiON and it was the keygen for GetRight 4.5. You're welcome.

[couchfort]

That looks fucking sweet as hell

[markhez2]

nice music

[ForgetfulCollector]

Ah yes, a relic from back when computers were used for computing. They should still look like this.

[Astroboi64]

@ForgetfulCollector Those days, so distant... sigh, only thing ppl use these for now is shitty facebook

[TheDemoniusX]

@Astroboi64

Best Youtube comment ever. These days people are spoiled compared to those days man. Now we have snobs that can't appreciate how awesome that technology was.

[Astroboi64]

@TheDemoniusX WTF u know how i feel

fuckin ingorant ppl cant appericate computer

[TheDemoniusX]

@Astroboi64

I know. it's rather sad since these computers were awesome and still are in some ways. Every time you go to a classic PC video people say "How shitty tech" They just don't know bro.

[Astroboi64]

@TheDemoniusX these kids cant tell a real computer from a phone nowdays, let alone SHIT

[healthhaterxx]

What a cute antique. Could use it to login to Mother on the Sulaco.

[appleip]

what type of cpu does it have x86 or motorola or arm or what

[TheSkullcrusher73]

the fatis pc

[mrAmiga500]

I wish we could hear the audio from that video instead of crap music. I want to hear the keypresses and what that guy is saying.

[reptomicus]

I love that case... it's like something out of a Kubrick movie like Clockwork Orange or 2001!

[Jonhny2]

Is it using the CPM operating system?

[brickman409]

why dont they make computers that look like that anymore

[galloway6204]

I wonder if it would play crysis? lol

[rhpsfan1929]

this design even beats an imac

[mikechicago]

I had my dad type "HULK" into one of these as a boy, circa 1979 at his office. HULK!

[TomMinderson]

That's a pretty cool design. DEC made much uglier ones a few years later. The VT52 looks like R2D2 barfed, for example.

[NamelessNLS]

its look like a startrek terminal from next generation :D

[atariboy1]

I'm now 15 and my school stil has one of these standing!

I asked my teacher about it and i got to take it for free home!

FREAKING AWSOME!

[pchapman905]

Good find. You can hook it up to a Linux box with a serial port and go old skool.

[thatstek]

Imma get VistaME on this thing.

[heatflash888]

That cathode ray tube looks very long by the depth of its case. Looks powerful enough to both display data and x-ray you at the same time.

[eatcomics]

give me 40 bucks and a soldering gun, and I can build a humanoid robot with that thing :D

[WorldForeverChanged]

this computer can run crysis on max settings

[r4du94]

:)) yes at 1frame per year

[Supergordan64]

and that's PUSHING it!

[itscrawford]

that shits mad niggrish. totally my thang

[bronsonlee777]

Great design.

[pancakewafflebacon]

it's the motherfuckin future right there

[Aqwert76]

this thing looks like a spaceship!

[Multigameboy1]

i think they use it to launge rockets at N.A.S.A :P

[ThePuppetgirl12]

somth older than me

.JOY

[gli7utubeo]

Always one of the first entries in terminfo.

[cerealkiller2222]

wowo amazing

[TomMinderson]

I used to use things like that in the mid 80's. They were mostly of used condition by then. It was a few years later when using a PC to talk to mini-computers instead of dedicated terminals became common. This was because dedicated terminals were still cheaper than a PC for a while because terminal companies were using similar innovations to keep them cheap.

[andydamg]

Looks like something out of Star Trek...

[ZXRulezzz]

I heard yhat chiptune somewhere before, but I can't remember where exactly.

[produKtNZ]

Most likely from a GameTrainer? breWers use some awesome ones xD

[NYz3R0dAY]

FFF (FiGHTiNG FoR FUN) owns the chiptune. they're a team of software crackers

[NYz3R0dAY]

@NYz3R0dAY i mean ORiON

[netwalker72]

Protovision, I got you now!

[WanderLink]

Why can't they make computers look like this now? This and the Commodore PET are damn sexy machines. Man, I'm a nerd.

[Tuckerx78]

yes, yes you are

[ryzoplace]

you're not alone ;o

god i need this or a PET

[mashersmasher]

@WanderLink well this isn't actually a computer but rather a terminal. think of a blinking imsai or altair 8800 beside this thing! Pure retro porn

[greenboy623]

Funny, that looks an awful lot like a UNIX environment he's running on the VAX.

[starsiegeplayer]

good eyes.  at 0:39 on hi quality you can see the "ls" command used.

[starsiegeplayer]

Ahh.. the video does say it was running ULTRIX. You could run VMS or ULTRIX (Digital's version of UNIX) on VAXen.

[Parsec994a]

The next generation of our computers will take styling cues from these. They were so forward looking!

[IMakeOrWatchVideos]

what pc is that in the backgound? it looks like the one from fallout3!

[hakaider]

Thats a Lear Siegler ADM-3A. Check the link in the description of this vid for more pix

[IMakeOrWatchVideos]

thank you vary much.

[6364gg2]

I think its a dumb terminal.

[amadeusyaoi]

I think the people that thumbed you down don't know what a dumb terminal is.

[BrightRaven0]

Yeah, Fallout 3 copied old PC designs

[IMakeOrWatchVideos]

yeah. i like that!

[flamingaxe791]

@IMakeOrWatchVideos

It really does lol!

[stickmakerman]

@IMakeOrWatchVideos it's a terminal, not pc

[IMakeOrWatchVideos]

@stickmakerman I did not know that at that time. But thanks anywho.

[Demogorgo]

i think i heard this song on a keygen

[lepivert]

Nice looking computer (ordonater)

[cobrachoppergirl]

Rocking out to C=64 midi on a 300 baud terminal... oh baby.

[dslitpwnspsp]

wow, can it play crysis on full settings?

[xtreme01hac10docter]

lol it doesnt have a GUI

[Velktron]

The terminal's casing design stomps major colon. It even fills the iMac's ass with concrete.

[pvx]

Amen, major style points for DEC. It makes the VT52 & VT100 look positively white-bread boring.

[douro20]

Does this terminal support light pen input?

[Uberdude25]

can it look up porn?

[6364gg2]

Dumb terminals!!!!

[eugeneman42]

ascii art porn.

[diamondboy9]

real life fallout 3 lol

[DanrkspineHaloGod]

whats the song called???

[matttheman597]

Please give the music source.

[poweredbyibm]

Gusto mas de las terminales IBM con fosforo verde.

Pobre se ve a un hacker ante un AS/400...

Hahahahahahahha

Maxi

[AFNYOAQIS]

Can someone please tell me what the music is called?

[unnannonelluretra]

cool music

[rufusandburne]

Wank!

[kylebond29]

0.42 lmao

[kylebond29]

0:42

[6364gg2]

Ya got my real name!

[kayanamasha]

hmm, 60's / 70's hardware was totally DESIGN!

now i want a VT05

[jtel]

Awesome.

[SimoneBerlin1987]

I see a very big core file on 0:42 O.M.G LOL

[quidnova]

wowe, it took 5 seconds to list about 5 lines!

I think most of the mystique of computing back then was maily novelty and antipation of something actually happening.

[samssoftwareuser]

sexy computer

[gclark03]

Notice that computers did just about everything we really needed over 30 years ago - the industry we have now is built on the shifting sands of want, rather than the bedrock of necessity.

[jingling30]

I couldn't have said it better. I have customers that have $10,000 email machines.

[Carloteiro]

But on thing you must admit: the shape of the DEC VT05 is much more futuristic then the actual computers.

[magicianspirit]

Nice choice of music. It fits the subject matter somehow!

[FIcaraudioBTL]

WOW THAT IS FAST do you play crysis whit that XD

[SpeeBeta1]

with realistic hires text graphics, it comes on only 10,000 disks

[Carloteiro]

We could try that. The PC would probably smoke off. hahahaha

[swlabr43]

When I started work at DEC in 1977 this was my terminal model. As an operating system developer I didn't need frills such as pictures and lowercase letters. A few more lines on the screen and a baud rate faster than 2400 would have been nice tho :-)

[GordonFr33man]

It must be very fun to visit a vintage computer festival :-D

[poopskinTheLiar]

P.S: What song is that? i want a .MP3 of the whole song...

[dwillson1]

me too

[compu85]

me three

[toddi1971]

search for Amiga MOD

[hakaider]

The song was extracted from a keygen from a cracking-crew called ORiON. Its from the late 90es, but i dont have more infos about that tune, sorry.

[Kargaroc286]

FOUND IT!!! google keygen music, and click on thje first link, and find ORiON on the chart. in the window that opens up, go to the one titled "GetRight 4.5 Kg" and download it. u will need winamp to play the .xm file

[malware872]

wow, thanks.

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

AWESOME KARGAROC286!!! IT WORKS! I'M LEARNING MORE ABOUT CHIPTUNES. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU (to Hakaider and you) from a lifelong musician/composer!

[jacobdallen]

Well, they did have those at a vintage computer fair in 2004. Nice thing.

[ExtraTerrestrials]

lol good pc for crysis XD

[poopskinTheLiar]

woah, i wish i had a case from one of those. i'd put modern components in it And be a VERY Happy Poopskin.

[poopskinTheLiar]

What did i do to merit a -1?! D: