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CDP1802's DEC VT52
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Like I say on the Heathkit H9 page, I love terminals. DEC made
a lot of terminals. The VT52 wasn't my first DEC terminal but it
is possibly my favorite DEC terminal, I think it has the best
style of the lot.
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My particular VT52 was a barn find, a former professor for a
formerly local university had some of the former computer gear
that he was allowed to take stowed behind car parts and under
boxes of cans of paint.

It wasn't in great shape, at least one mouse called the thing
home and some sort of chemicals spilled on the top plastic, but
it was pretty electrically sound.

It didn't actually stay with me for very long at first, one of
my friends was holding onto it as her way to talk to a PDP-8/a,
but she recently asked if I'd like it back as she bought her
own VT78.
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As-mentioned on the first "blog" entry for this site, I'm using
my VT52 to write this site. It's just hooked to a Linux machine
as a serial terminal, nothing all too fancy, and it works quite
well at that job.

The majority of repair work done on this particular unit has
been the keyboard, specifically how crap and brittle Hi-Tek
plungers are. They crack on the corners if you look at them
wrong. It's a good thing we live in a world with smart people
because some cool individual made 3D printable repacements,
GitHub user AkBKukU has a repo with the part and a tool to
install them.
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