Computer Terminal Replica Inspired By 70s Hardware

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/01/computer-terminal-replica-inspired-by-70s-hardware/

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During my early university years, the ADM-3a was the ubiquitous display terminal. It was cheap, I guess. I don't think I ever came across a DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) VT52 or VT100, the terminal models that almost all other brands of terminal (or, later, terminal emulators for windowing systems, like xterm) emulated. (Except HP terminals, HP was a big enough company to have their own style of control sequences.)

I had no idea that the company that produced the ADM-3a, Lear Siegler, had such an interesting backstory:

👉 Lear Siegler Incorporated (LSI) is a diverse American corporation established in 1962. Its products range from car seats and brakes to weapons control systems for military fighter planes. The company's more than $2 billion-a-year annual sales comes from three major areas: aerospace-technology, automotive parts, and industrial-commercial. The company, however, is basically anonymous, since its products are either unmarked or bear only the label "LSI". Lear Siegler went private in 1987. 👈

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lear_Siegler

Edit: Apparently the VT52 was broadly contemporaneous to the ADM-3a but the VT100 came a few years later.

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