Mastodawn

Thanks to @[email protected] I now have a DECWriter again :thumbsup:

#DECWriter #RetroComputing #DEC #digitalequipmentcorporation

David Hembrow Jun 12, 2025

Sorting through stuff in our garage, I found a spare keytop. Should I ever need to switch between 110 and 300 baud in the future this'll come in handy.
I think they may have come off a DECwriter.
#dec #decwriter #keyboard

robert588 Apr 2, 2024

This is so cool! It’s going to need a bath… #vintagecomp #dec #digital #decwriter

C.Feb 6, 2024

@vampiress

I programmed on one of those #DecWriter terminals...

I still get nightmares about line editors.

#LineEditor #PrinterTerminal #VAX #VMS #DEC

Computer History Museum 🇸🇮Oct 16, 2023

💡🖨️ For terminal access, you don't even need a monitor. Ancestor of this dot matrix printer with a keyboard, the DECwriter III, had its roots in teleprinters, which evolved from telegraphy. This model dates back to 1977 and supports only the more modern RS-232 standard with a maximum speed of 9600 bit/s.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #dotmatrixprinter #retrotech #nostalgia #nostalgie #70er #retrocomputing #decwriter #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #terminal

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C.Jul 17, 2023

@lauren

I took my first uni #CS course as a night class while I was in high school. We used #DECWriter #printer #terminals connected to an ancient #VAX - the terminals were laughably out-of-date even at that time (mid-#80s).

They could only print 30 chars/s, so they topped out at 300 baud.

Good riddance to line editors!

Ethan Blanton Jan 9, 2023

A family of #PDP11 computers and a #DECWriter IV terminal (along with some other old stuff). This photo is from a few years ago, when I was working on two of the 11/34s. The 11/34 on top in the stack of two was functional at this time, but the other two were flaky. The unit in the rack is now operational, but the bottom of the two stacked units has both a power supply and a backplane issue (the latter undiagnosed, the former unfixed). #retrocomputing